0 If the cost of something is prohibitive, it is too expensive for most people:
2 too expensive for most people:
prohibitive costs/fees/rates Green groups have been unable to challenge instances of pollution in court because of prohibitive costs.
He'd like to use locally grown cottonseed or peanuts to create biofuel, but prices remain prohibitive.
be prohibitive for sb Rents in the area are prohibitive for many households.
3 preventing something from being done, or preventing others from succeeding:
She is the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination.
prohibitive laws/legislation
Secondly, even if it was possible, the performance cost of checking all array stores would be prohibitive.
However, the prohibitive amount of calculations necessary make any definite statements on the range of validity impossible.
In any case, readers should realize that developing large item pools is quite costly and may prove to be prohibitive for some.
In some areas such as insider trading, judges may be unwilling to bear prohibitive search costs of investigation.
According to the interviews, seal and beluga hunts often require long trips, making the operation costs of a canoe with an outboard engine prohibitive.
Even when a specific individual imposed prohibitive agreements on the community, it was the people who punished violators, not the one who conferred the agreement.
That said, there is little reason to believe that implementation costs for informal sources are, in general, prohibitive.
In the ideal situation, prohibitive agreements actually reflected the latent wishes of the villagers and what they wanted the authorities to do.
