0 If the cost of something is prohibitive, it is too expensive for most people: --
2 too expensive for most people: --
be prohibitive for sb Rents in the area are prohibitive for many households.
He'd like to use locally grown cottonseed or peanuts to create biofuel, but prices remain prohibitive.
prohibitive costs/fees/rates Green groups have been unable to challenge instances of pollution in court because of prohibitive costs.
3 preventing something from being done, or preventing others from succeeding: --
prohibitive laws/legislation
She is the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination.
The unknown variables introduced by donor plasma in the priming volume are prohibitive of predicting the effect of heparin based on sensitivity and dilution calculations.
While a large number of small tasks results in good load balancing, the organizational overhead becomes prohibitive.
Likewise, the difficulty in obtaining high quality micronutrient fertilizers and spreading them evenly on the soil can be prohibitive.
However, the cost of a sufficient number of boluses to treat adult cattle could be prohibitive.
Without increases in budgets for staff training within general practice, the costs of developing a solid knowledge base may be prohibitive.
A great deal of the prohibitive dialogue has disappeared (though not all).
Finally, the computational complexity and usefulness of the machine-proposed variables and constraints, resulting from qualitative system identification, may be prohibitive in practical applications.
In the ideal situation, prohibitive agreements actually reflected the latent wishes of the villagers and what they wanted the authorities to do.
