1 (of a price or a cost) so high that it prevents people from buying sth or doing sth:
prohibitive costs * a prohibitive tax on imported cars * The price of property in the city is prohibitive.
2 preventing people from doing sth by law:
prohibitive legislation
prohibitively adverb:
Car insurance can be prohibitively expensive for young drivers.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for prohibitive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is prohibitive a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, prohibitive is tagged as adjective.
Does prohibitive appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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