(of a price or a cost )价格或费用 so high that it prevents people from buying something or doing something synonym exorbitant高昂得令人难以承受的;贵得买不起的 preventing people from doing something by law (以法令)禁止的 prohibitive legislation 禁律
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(of a person taking part in an election or a competition )参加竞选或比赛的人 extremely likely to win 极可能获胜的
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (2)): from French prohibitif, -ive or Latin prohibitivus, from prohibit- ‘kept in check’, from the verb prohibere, from pro- ‘in front’ + habere ‘to hold’.