prohibitive
IPA: proʊhˈɪbʌtɪv
noun
- (grammar) A negative imperative.
adjective
- Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
- Costly to the extreme; beyond budget; requiring an unreasonable effort.
- (Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner.
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Examples of "prohibitive" in Sentences
- The cost would be prohibitive.
- This is prohibitively expensive.
- The cost to scrub sulfur from coal is prohibitive.
- The use of trainers, also, may be prohibitive in cost.
- The cost of renewing the buildings would be prohibitive.
- The country was the place where the cost of drugs is prohibitive.
- At the time, the cost of developing the gas field proved prohibitive.
- The cost of creating multiple full translations was also prohibitive.
- I think that you'll find the word 'prohibitive' is an understatement.
- The intent, however, was to make the taxes and terms prohibitive to all non-medical use.
- Who now could deny that it would be folly to oppose the resources of ordinary warfare to those of what might be called prohibitive warfare.
- The city reserves the right to cancel the arena project, which is to be financed jointly by the city and the province, should a detailed cost study make the price tag prohibitive.
- Your comment about anise being cost prohibitive is true, but what I started doing last year is to go to the pharmacy and buy a syringe (like diabetics use) and squirt proper amount on my bait.
- The article goes on to say one option is to boost the force level by up to 50,000 even though any increase greater than 20 - 30,000 would be "prohibitive" - but it won't deter the Pentagon, on administration orders, from extending tours of duty even longer for forces now there and calling up thousands of reservists and greatly extended National Guard units to get into this quagmire even though it's recognized their presence will only make things worse as well as place an unfair burden on those called up, who've served before, and their families.
- I submit that a more complete solution to the crisis of access to legal services should fulfil the following conditions: it should increase the pool of legal service providers in order to address the overall shortage of lawyers; is should increase the capacity of legal aid and other entities to provide legal services free of charge; it should ensure access to legal services for people of all income levels, including low and middle income people; it should not be cost-prohibitive from a government viewpoint; and, it should ensure a high quality of legal service as well as competence and integrity among all legal professionals.