Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - exorbitant
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Exorbitant
exorbitant
If you describe something such as a price or fee as exorbitant, you are emphasizing that it is much greater than it should be. Exorbitant housing prices have created an acute shortage of affordable housing for the poor. = excessive ADJ c darkgreen]emphasis • exorbitantly ...exorbitantly high salaries. ADV
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adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ~-, exorbitans, present participle of exorbitare to deviate, from Latin ex- + orbita track of a wheel, rut, from orbis disk, hoop Date: 15th century 1. not coming within the scope of the law 2. exceeding the customary or appropriate limits in intensity, quality, amount, or size Synonyms: see excessive • ~ly adverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. (of a price, demand, etc.) grossly excessive. Derivatives exorbitance n. exorbitantly adv. Etymology: LL exorbitare (as EX-(1), orbita ORBIT) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. непомерный, чрезмерный (о требованиях, цене и т. п.) exorbitant luxury —- ни с чем не сообразная роскошь to charge exorbitant prices —- заламывать непомерные цены 2. спец. отклонившийся от пути, от орбиты ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj an exorbitant price, rate, demand etc is much higher than is reasonable or usual (It's a good restaurant but the prices are exorbitant.) - exorbitance n - exorbitantly adv ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1437, from L. exorbitantem (nom. exorbitans), prp. of exorbitare "deviate, go out of the track," from ex- "out of" + orbita "wheel track." Originally "eccentric;" sense of "excessive, immoderate" first recorded 1440, from notion of "forsaking the right path." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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