exorbitant
Example Sentences
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“I was getting just an exorbitant amount of calls, like every single day, and had learned to not pick up my phone,” he said.
So far the status of the dollar as the world’s dominant global currency, and therefore the U.S.’s so-called “exorbitant privilege” of being able to run sustained balance-of-payments deficits without penalty, has remained intact.
From Barron's
Almost 60 years ago a miffed French politician dubbed the dollar system an “exorbitant privilege.”
Travel said that there is a "culture" of airlines using "low headline fares, then charging exorbitant prices on top to take a standard cabin bag".
From BBC
The cost of borrowing the shares for a short sale is exorbitant, if an investor could find someone to lend them.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
