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单词 exorbiant
释义

exorbiant

English

Adjective

exorbiant (comparative more exorbiant, superlative most exorbiant)

  1. Synonym of exorbitant
    • 1778, Richard King, The New Cheats of London Exposed:
      AUCTIONS, or selling goods of any kind by advance to the highest bidder, are in general delasive, and seldom answer the end of the purchaser, as he frequently obtains his commodities at an exorbiant rate.
    • 1822, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
      Conscious of their fear and hatred, the Persian conqueror governed his new subjects with an iron sceptre; and as if he suspected the stability of his dominion, he exhausted their wealth by exorbiant tributes and licentious rapine, despoiled or demolished the temples of the East, and transported to his hereditary realms the gold, the silver, the precious marbles, the arts, and the artists of the Asiatic cities.
  2. Misspelling of exorbitant.
    • 1996, D. N. Basu & ‎G. S. Guha, Agro-climatic Regional Planning in India: Themes and case studies, →ISBN:
      That is, land which cannot be brought under cultivation except at an exorbiant cost should be classed as unculturable whether such land is in isolated blocks or within cultivated holdings.
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