OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 34750

prohibitive

/pɹəˈhɪbɪtɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
prohibitivo
Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.
prohibitivo
Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
I'd like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.
The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to help bring home to the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban servi…