Definition of Prohibitive. Meaning of Prohibitive. Synonyms of Prohibitive

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Definition of Prohibitive

Prohibitive
Prohibitive Pro*hib"it*ive, a. [Cf. F. prohibitif.] That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.

Meaning of Prohibitive from wikipedia

- negated. A distinct negative imperative form is sometimes said to be in prohibitive mood (abbreviated PROH). Negative imperatives tell the subject to not...
- where a leather-like finish is desired but the actual material is cost prohibitive or unsuitable due to practical or ethical concerns. Artificial leather...
- is extracted via a process of enfleurage (rarely used nowadays due to prohibitive costs) or solvent extraction. The blossoms are gathered, usually by hand...
- is no longer possible, being too dangerous, physically difficult, or prohibitively expensive to be undertaken. The point of no return can be a calculated...
- houses were evacuated. After the cost of a proposed drain was seen as prohibitive, the village was eventually left deserted. Most of the settlers moved...
- each point in the database, which for large datasets is com****tionally prohibitive. For high-dimensional data, tree-based exact vector search techniques...
- breech-locking mechanism (similar to the Russian DP-27), the weapon was prohibitively expensive to manufacture, and only ten were ever made. Kjellman LMG...
- benefits of dense, permanent settlement were numerous, but required prohibitive amounts of food and labor to maintain. Ancient cities allowed for the...
- administration discouraged and disqualified Jewish refugees based on its prohibitive requirements that left less than 25% of the quotas filled. Adolf Hitler...
- com****tional complexity of finding a homomorphism between given graphs is prohibitive in general, but a lot is known about special cases that are solvable...