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exorbitant

[ ig-zawr-bi-tuhnt ]

adjective

  1. exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety, or reason, especially in amount or extent; highly excessive:

    to charge an exorbitant price; exorbitant luxury.

  2. Archaic. outside the authority of the law.


exorbitant

/ ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənt /

adjective

  1. (of prices, demands, etc) in excess of what is reasonable; excessive; extravagant; immoderate


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Derived Forms

  • exˈorbitantly, adverb
  • exˈorbitance, noun

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Other Words From

  • ex·orbi·tant·ly adverb
  • unex·orbi·tant adjective
  • unex·orbi·tant·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of exorbitant1

1425–75; late Middle English < Late Latin exorbitant- (stem of exorbitāns, present participle of exorbitāre to go out of the track), equivalent to ex- ex- 1 + orbit ( a ) wheel track ( orbit ) + -ant- -ant

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Word History and Origins

Origin of exorbitant1

C15: from Late Latin exorbitāre to deviate, from Latin orbita track

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Example Sentences

One of her tasks was directing baseball activities in the Dominican Republic, where for years local agents—called buscones—have skimmed off exorbitant portions of the signing bonuses awarded to young prospects.

From Time

This is a confused system driving up demand, not a real rateRegardless of whether guests are really being charged these rates, residents found the exorbitant prices unacceptable, especially when shelter is so limited.

From Vox

The apps offer infrastructure to tackle delivery, while simultaneously employing suspect practices like charging exorbitant fees to the restaurants that use the services.

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“We’ve seen exorbitant adoption in streaming services and hours spent in front of a television, whether that be linear or on demand or via streaming services,” said Anderson.

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For some reason, banks were not willing to offer these hedge funds repo loans, even at exorbitant rates.

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High Rents Are Killing the Restaurant Capital By Will Doig Exorbitant rents, the rise of Brooklyn, lazy millennials.

Ultimately, the changing threat and enormous price tag doomed the program and only three ships will be built at exorbitant cost.

It just feels a bit exorbitant or crass to write “Hitler” in a novel.

I was looking around a lot in Manhattan, but the prices were exorbitant.

A helping of free PR, all while skillfully avoiding the exorbitant day rate of British fashion model Daisy Lowe.

At a time when money might aspire to everything, the millionaire's dreams had nothing very exorbitant.

One criticism that has been made of this patent medicine is the exorbitant price charged for it.

You arrest the attention of the average man when you appeal to his purse; he resents paying an exorbitant price for anything.

But suppose the rents in Ireland were exorbitant, who would be to blame?

Thence he proceeded: 'Here is mischief, mischief in summo gradu, exorbitant mischief!'

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