Usually means: Excessively restrictive; discouraging due to cost.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word prohibitive:

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

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

(Note: See prohibitively as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
adjective:  Costly to the extreme; beyond budget; requiring an unreasonable effort.
adjective:  (Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner.
noun:  (grammar) A negative imperative.

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