prohibitive
pronunciation
How to pronounce prohibitive in British English:
UK [prəˈhɪbətɪv]
How to pronounce prohibitive in American English:
US [prəˈhɪbətɪv]
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- Adjective:
- tending to discourage (especially of prices)
Word Origin
- prohibitive (adj.)
- c. 1600, "having the quality of prohibiting," from prohibit + -ive, or else from French prohibitif (16c.), from Late Latin prohibit-, past participle stem of prohibere. Of prices, rates, etc., "so high as to prevent use," it is from 1886. Related: Prohibitively.
Example
- 1. There is no messing about with radio-spectrum licences or digging up roads , and fso can also bypass prohibitive planning restrictions .
- 2. Fortunately , the evidence suggests that the costs of action should not be prohibitive .
- 3. An enormous investigation along bloody sunday lines will not be mounted again because the time it took and the costs it ran up were prohibitive .
- 4. Opaque references require remote calls to compare object identity reliably . For some applications , the overhead of these calls is prohibitive .
- 5. Article 6 any country or region that takes discriminatory prohibitive or restrictive measures or other similar measures against the people 's republic of china in terms of the import or export of goods , it may , according to the specific situations , take corresponding measures against such country or region .