caro
costly ; expensive ; dear ; expensively ; pricey ; pricy .
Controlled-language indexing is extremely time-consuming and costly.
However, since most hosts are in South East England, access can be expensive from other parts of the UK.
The author argues that delivery of knowledge via books and periodicals is too expensive and examines possible reasons why periodicals are so dear.
In 1800 all paper was made, rather expensively, by hand.
My understanding is that this is fairly pricey, too.
These could be the next hot thing but they are still very pricy, almost too pricy for most golfers.
costar caro
cost + dearly
Poor education policies have cost us dearly.
demasiado caro
overpriced [over-priced]
There are too many scholarly publications and too many of them are overpriced.
edición cara
hardcover
Over the last few years, more and more authors of mass market romances have crossed over the paper genre line and found success in hardcover.
extremadamente caro
prohibitively expensive
At the present time online catalogs seem to be prohibitively expensive for public libraries.
lo caro
expensiveness
A noticeable feature is the relative expensiveness of Dutch journals.
mantenimiento caro
high maintenance
This paper discusses the importance of the urban public library for the poor, newly literate Africans; implications for the library (high lending rate and high maintenance, repair and replacement costs); and economic constraints.
muy caro
high priced [high-priced]
Inflationary trends in scholarly and professional publishing are forcing many academic libraries to cancel subscriptions to high-priced and/or seldom used titles = Las tendencias inflacionistas en la edición científica y en la especializada para profesionales están obligando a muchas bibliotecas académicas a cancelar las suscripciones a los títulos muy caros y/o usados con poca frecuencia.
pagar caro
pay + penalty
pay + dearly
The penalty to be paid for this is that the whole file is slightly more than twice the size of the data base.
The public should at least be told that they will end up paying dearly for the deception being perpetrated upon them.
resultar caro
prove + expensive
prove + costly
Ad hoc attempts to impose a rigorous structure will prove either impossible, or so expensive as to render the exercise impossible.
The future of this type of music is uncertain since use of special rules can prove costly.
ruinosamente caro
ruinously expensive
I do have a couple of nasty chafes on my feet from my new and ruinously expensive sandals, if that counts in any way.
ser caro
be steep
Even with Groome's effort to ease tax burden pressures on individual property owners through industrial development, the tax rate is very steep.
venderse caro
play + hard to get
play it + cool
Playing hard to get is definitely one of the games of love.
Meeting someone for the first time can be nerve-wracking, but so can trying to balance your eagerness with your need to play it cool when you're in a dating relationship.
