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Definition of High-priced
1. Adjective. Having a high price. "A pricey restaurant"
Similar to: Expensive
Derivative terms: Cost, Costliness, Dearness, Price, Price, Price, Price
Definition of High-priced
1. Adjective. expensive ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of High-priced
Literary usage of High-priced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1908)
"He will talk to us a short time this morning on the subject of "Growing Young
Cattle on High Priced Land." As he is in^close touch with the ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Of course, if they insist, English-speaking countries can learn about the metric
system in the high priced school of their own experience, but more than a ..."
3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1903)
"The limitations of high priced hand labor have compelled American engineers to
utilize machinery, if they are to construct stone roads at all, ..."
4. The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1911)
""Well, if you are a high-priced man, you will load that pig iron on that car ...
That is what a high-priced man does, and you know it just as well as I do. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1887)
"The truth in this case happens to be at precisely the opposite pole. The correct
theory is, that high-priced labor makes a cheap ..."
6. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... paid duty ad valorem, the high-priced tea paying more duty than that of a
lower pnce. ... highpriced ..."
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