{
    "term": "expensive",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "costing a lot of money",
            "sensetop": "expensive to doexpensive for somebodyexpensive for somebody to doit is expensive to do somethingit is expensive for somebody to do something",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an expensive car/restaurant/holiday"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't afford it—it's too expensive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Making the wrong decision could **prove expensive**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That dress was an **expensive mistake**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Art books are expensive to produce.",
                    "contextForm": "expensive to do"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new regulations are likely to be very expensive for employers.",
                    "contextForm": "expensive for somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Bonds can be expensive for individuals to invest in.",
                    "contextForm": "expensive for somebody to do"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's expensive to live in London.",
                    "contextForm": "it is expensive to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is now more expensive for Europeans to visit here.",
                    "contextForm": "it is expensive for somebody to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Food in this country is getting very expensive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Giving every patient an annual anti-flu injection would be prohibitively expensive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her suit looked extremely expensive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I found the food very expensive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of these legal cases are enormously expensive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "discreetly expensive perfume"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Shopping", "Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "prove"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈspensɪv/",
                "audio": "ex/expensive/expensive__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈspensɪv/",
                "audio": "ex/expensive/expensive__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘lavish, extravagant’): from Latin expens- ‘paid out’, from the verb expendere, from ex- ‘out’ + pendere ‘weigh, pay’ + -ive."
}