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Synonyms for prohibitive

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for prohibitive

tending to discourage (especially of prices)

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
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"Particularly in Europe we've now seen the stadiums starting to cost PS1bn in some cases and we feel it is really going to be prohibitive for some clubs to service that kind of investment.
Therefore, in the Chinese cultural context, when lower-level employees communicate with their supervisor, prohibitive voice has a greater risk than promotive voice (Kakkar, Tangirala, Srivastava, & Kamdar, 2016).
Pimentel stressed that money was never a qualification under the 1987 Constitution, but recent electoral exercises showed that only rich people or those supported by wealthy financiers could run due to the prohibitive costs of mounting a campaign.
However, it detrimental to patients to suggest that the 24-hr urine method should not be used to measure any topically administered hormones, as well as a disservice to patients and physicians new to BHRT to suggest that it is cost prohibitive.
But after consultation with the host diocese, it was decided that the distances would make it difficult for volunteers to support the meeting and the distance from airports would be generally prohibitive.
I refuse to pay this prohibitive cost and shall not be using Bahrain Post in the future.
The prohibitive price of fuel and parking fees do not appear to bother those determined to use their cars instead of sharing a vehicle to reduce costs.
It is believed that the prohibitive cost of hounding motorists may be one of the reasons for the fall in the number of prosecutions, which is in line with a similar fall in the rate of speed camera detections.
Citigroup analysts said that the three banks would have to bear prohibitive costs of more than EUR11bn if they exit from Hungary.
Castren's Samoyedic grammar, a part of North Samoyedic prohibitive stems was very restrictedly used in his time.
Despite figures revealing a 24 per cent rise in mortgage lending in March, Mr Watts said the underlying problem remained that firsttime buyers were still being asked to put down large deposits and face prohibitive lending criteria.
THE Indianapolis Colts are prohibitive favourites at 1/2 to win the Super Bowl in Miami tomorrow, but the game is likely to be a shoot-out so the New Orleans Saints should not be discounted.