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[Thai Economics Library | Archives (for history)]
June 13, 2007

Exorbitant

exorbitant (adjective) - much too large

exorbitant price
exorbitant rents
exorbitant rates
exorbitant fees
exorbitant expense
exorbitant payments
exorbitant odds
exorbitant interest rates
considered exorbitant


Example sentences:

* Bond yields remain at spreads that bond traders consider exorbitant.

* Regulators aren't doing enough to bring down the exorbitant rates charged by the national electricity monopoly.

* New debt issues will now be forced to pay exorbitant interest rates to cover the increased risk premium.

* Buying a new SIM card in the country will avoid the exorbitant roaming charges of having your calls routed back through your home country.

* In the past, exorbitant interest rates have crippled the economy.

* They cannot charge their usual exorbitant fee if you only talk to them over the phone.

* If you can look past the exorbitant odds against winning, roughly 80 million to one, you might get excited enough to buy a lottery ticket.

* Exorbitant concession prices ended the great money-making potential of the telecommunications business.

* Exorbitant annual interest payments on his outstanding consumer debt prevented her from saving any money.

* The days of paying exorbitant prices for gasoline have passed, at least for the time being.

* We could hardly afford to buy food since rents were so exorbitant.

* Why must we pay exorbitant rents for appalling accommodation?

* Black marketeers charge an exorbitant price for items that are considered everyday necessities in other countries.

* Exorbitant champagne prices can make weddings an expensive affair for some.

* "The expense is exorbitant and the pleasure transitory."

* The court held that imposing an exorbitant charge like this was particularly onerous and unusual.


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