exorbitance

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ex·or·bi·tance

(ĭg-zôr′bĭ-təns)

1. Excessiveness, as of price or amount.

2. Behavior or an action that exceeds what is right or proper.

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ex•or•bi•tance

(ɪgˈzɔr bɪ təns)

also ex•or′bi•tan•cy,

the quality of being exorbitant.

[1400–50]

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Noun

exorbitance - excessive excess

outrageousness

excessiveness, inordinateness, excess - immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits

exorbitance

noun

A condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate:

embarrassment, excess, excessiveness, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, overabundance, plethora, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit.

Translations

جَسامَه، فَداحَه

umådeholdenhedurimelighed

Maßlosigkeit

énormité

túlzottság

hófleysi

ubluhet

prehnanosť

aşırılık

不当过度过高

exorbitance

[ɪgˈzɔːbɪtəns] N → exorbitancia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

exorbitance

n (of price) → Unverschämtheit f; (of demands also) → Maßlosigkeit f, → Übertriebenheit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

exorbitance

[ɪgˈzɔːbɪt/əns] n → eccessività

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

exorbitant

(igˈzoːbitənt) adjective

(of prices or demands) very high or unreasonable.

exˈorbitantly adverb

exˈorbitance noun

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This dearth, it is fair to assume, was caused by the exorbitance of Red-Eye, and it illustrates the menace he was to the existence of the horde.

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Holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans against hike of prices and exorbitance, the protesters demanded of the government to reverse the decision immediately to remove unrest among poor.