Usually means: Excessively high or unreasonable cost.
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  1. exorbitant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. exorbitant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exorbitant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exorbitant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exorbitant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exorbitant, exorbitant: Wordnik
  7. exorbitant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exorbitant: Wiktionary
  9. exorbitant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exorbitant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exorbitant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Exorbitant, exorbitant: Dictionary.com
  13. exorbitant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. exorbitant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Exorbitant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. exorbitant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. exorbitant: Rhymezone
  18. Exorbitant, exorbitant(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. exorbitant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. exorbitant: Free Dictionary
  21. exorbitant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. exorbitant: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. exorbitant: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. exorbitant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exorbitant: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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▸ adjective:  Exceeding proper limits; excessive or unduly high; extravagant.

Similar:
immoderate, usurious, outrageous, unconscionable, extortionate, steep, excessive, exorbiant, exhorbitant, extravagant, more...

Opposite:
reasonable, affordable, inexpensive

Types:
outrageous, extortionate, excessive, unreasonable, unfair, unjust, immoderate, inordinate, more...

Phrases:
Exorbitant privilege, more...

Colors:
    gold,     platinum,     emerald,     ruby,     sapphire,     amethyst,     onyx,     jade,     topaz,     turquoise
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Similar:
immoderate, usurious, outrageous, unconscionable, extortionate, steep, excessive, exorbiant, exhorbitant, extravagant, more...

Opposite:
reasonable, affordable, inexpensive

Types:
outrageous, extortionate, excessive, unreasonable, unfair, unjust, immoderate, inordinate, more...

Phrases:
Exorbitant privilege, more...

Colors:
    gold,     platinum,     emerald,     ruby,     sapphire,     amethyst,     onyx,     jade,     topaz,     turquoise



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