Adjective

(en adjective)

Having a high price or cost.

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, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= T time , passage=[…] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: […]. […] the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}

(computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

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Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.

* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Measure for Measure) Act 2 Scene 2

Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes