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COSTLY

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Traducere în limba română

costly adjectiv

1. costisitor, scump.

2. (fig.) de (mare) preţ, preţios, valoros; bogat, somptuos, luxos.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Health care can be costly.

(Financial Assistance, NIH)

Whereupon I was at much pains to describe to him the use of money, the materials it was made of, and the value of the metals; that when a Yahoo had got a great store of this precious substance, he was able to purchase whatever he had a mind to; the finest clothing, the noblest houses, great tracts of land, the most costly meats and drinks, and have his choice of the most beautiful females.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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