English-Dutch translations for expensive

• duur
  Behandelen is nog steeds veel te duur. A cure is still far too expensive.
  Bovendien zijn deze scanners duur. Also, these scanners are expensive.
  Dataroaming is ontzettend duur. Data roaming is extremely expensive.
• expensief
• kostbaar
  De beheerders vertelden ons in het Parlement dat dit te kostbaar zou zijn. The operators tell us in Parliament that it would be too expensive.
  In plaats daarvan beschikken we in Europa over een zeer kostbaar proces voor het schoonmaken van kippenkarkassen. What we have instead is a very expensive process in Europe for cleaning chicken carcasses.
  Onze groene beleidsmaatregelen zijn waarschijnlijk overbodig, zonder meer vergeefs en rampzalig kostbaar. Our green policies are probably unnecessary, certainly ineffectual and ruinously expensive.

Definition of expensive

• Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish
• Having a high price or cost
• Taking a lot of system time or resources

Examples

• an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm

Related words

• inexpensive
• inexpensiveness
• inexpensively
• expensively
• expensiveness
• it's too expensive
• less expensive
• cheap inexpensively