English-Portuguese translations for prohibitive

• proibitivo
  O custo da detenção de requerentes de asilo é proibitivo. The cost of detaining asylum seekers is prohibitive.
  Introduziram encargos elevados e proibitivos. They have introduced high, prohibitive fees.
  Os preços de inscrição para cotação não deverão ser proibitivos.Entrance fees should not be prohibitive.

Definition of prohibitive

• Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow
• Costly to the extreme; beyond budget
• Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner
• negative imperative

Examples

• Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.
• Id like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.

Related words

• prohibition
• Prohibition
• prohibitively
• prohibitionism
• prohibitionary
• antiprohibitionism
• prohibition order