prohibitory

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For someone like me who would use it for a week, wait two years, then use it for another week, $8-$10 per month is prohibitory.

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tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive"

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adjective

tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for prohibitory.

adjective

tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive"

Example sentences

For someone like me who would use it for a week, wait two years, then use it for another week, $8-$10 per month is prohibitory.

I'm guessing the production is complicated and the cost is prohibitory though.

A 20 mi long piece of electronics floating in the open ocean would have [:deadpan:] more prohibitory issues than drag.

I've been staring at a prohibitory screen of my friends Imac while I try to boot it from a External hard drive that I created with createinstallmedia.

This arrangement has been very serviceable as a compromise so far; I can't help but be very unsettled if large traditionally liberal segments of society are cannibalised by a prohibitory movement that deems it insufficient.

The logistics of buying phone numbers in multiple countries, dealing with all their legal limits on how you can use phones, and legally hooking all of the magic Internet-to-Phone-System hardware has to be a bit prohibitory for international release.