exorbitant

1.ADJ If you describe something such as a price or fee as exorbitant, you are emphasizing that it is much higher than it should be. (價格、費用) 過高的 [強調] ^[1] 

exorbitant taxation 苛捐雜税

exorbitant demands 誅求

exorbitant expensive 昂貴的

exorbitant profiteering 暴利行為

exorbitant usury 重利盤剝

exorbitant profit 暴利 ; 翻譯 ; 過高的利潤

exorbitant extortionate 過高的

Exorbitant Privilege 過度特權 ; 囂張的特權 ; 過分特權 ; 囂張特權

Globalisation is also pushing up the already exorbitant cost of business education.

全球化也在推高商業教育本已過高的成本。

Exorbitant housing prices have created an acute shortage of affordable housing for the poor.

過高的房價使窮人負擔得起的房源嚴重短缺。

The US has better growth prospects than most European nations and has the "exorbitant privilege" of issuing debt in the world's reserve currency, which keeps the cost down.

美國比大多數歐洲國家有更好的增長前景，而且美國還有將債務轉移到國際儲備貨幣上的“過分的特權”，這將使成本降低。 ^[1]