big-ticket
Example Sentences
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Deere has struggled from an extended slowdown in the tractor business with farmers cutting back on big-ticket purchases amid challenging farm fundamentals and elevated interest rates.
Even so, it has been clear for many years that the likely cost of just one big-ticket item — healthcare — dwarfs what most people have salted away for retirement.
From MarketWatch
Bar directors know such prices can elicit scoffs of disbelief, but they justify the big-ticket tipples by comparing them to special-occasion items at restaurants.
The drop continues a slide booked at the end of last year and suggests buyers in the eurozone’s second-largest economy remain cautious about splashing out on big-ticket items like new cars.
While the consumer-goods subsidies helped raise spending temporarily, the payoff has stalled now that many shoppers have already used the subsidies to make big-ticket purchases.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.