Crossword-Solution: PROHIBITIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prohibitive | a. | That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “PROHIBITIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| tending to prohibit or restrain | 1 answer |
| tending to discourage | 1 answer |
| proprietorial | 1 answer |
| Of a price so high that it deters buyers | 1 answer |
| Proprietary | 2 answers |
| let alone | 26 answers |
| tying | 31 answers |
| inhibiting | 31 answers |
| bridling | 32 answers |
| retarding | 32 answers |
| qualifying | 33 answers |
| coercive | 34 answers |
| obstructive | 35 answers |
| Hobbling | 35 answers |
| Selective | 37 answers |
| ASIDE (FROM) | 41 answers |
| concluding | 41 answers |
| controlling | 44 answers |
| Select | 45 answers |
| regulating | 48 answers |
| final | 52 answers |
| Particular | 52 answers |
| restrictive | 54 answers |
| provisional | 54 answers |
| restraining | 55 answers |
| confining | 57 answers |
| cramped | 58 answers |
| conditional | 68 answers |
| Narrow | 68 answers |
| Tight | 71 answers |
| "Dear __" | 77 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROHIBITIVE (5)
First, Southerners did not seem as frightened about racial mixing on the graduate school level, and second, the cost of developing separate graduate and professional schools for a handful of Negro students, it was reasoned, would be prohibitive.
But it has been found by the wisest of our Circles or Statesmen that the multiplication of restrictions on Females tends not only to the debilitation and diminution of the race, but also to the increase of domestic murders to such an extent that a State loses more than it gains by a too prohibitive Code.
How do I know that it is so? By these facts:--In the kingdom the multiplication of prohibitive enactments increases the poverty of the people; the more implements to add to their profit that the people have, the greater disorder is there in the state and clan; the more acts of crafty dexterity that men possess, the more do strange contrivances appear; the more display there is of legislation, the more thieves and robbers there are.
Further than that he knew nothing of the work before him, but he concluded, from the fact that he had been paid the almost prohibitive sum he had asked for his services, that it must be important, or that he had reached that place in his career when he could stop actual work and live easily, as an expert, on the work of others.
Who now could deny that it would be folly to oppose the resources of ordinary warfare to those of what might be called prohibitive warfare.
Quotes with PROHIBITIVE (3)
Fear says that what God has called me to is blatantly impossible. Selfishness says that the cost is unacceptably prohibitive. My humanity harbors other lesser agendas that seduce me to my own death. And I would be wise to believe none of it.
As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.