How to use "prohibitive" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "prohibitive" in popular movie and book plots

  • As described in a film magazine, Henry Carpenter (Washburn) finds his supply of liquor getting low and the price far too prohibitive once national prohibition goes into effect.  - The Six Best Cellars
  • A centuries-old researcher-mage, Rohder had discovered new geometric properties that could boost the production of plasm in cities, with the unfortunate need to completely reorder their infrastructure at prohibitive cost.  - City on Fire (Williams novel)
  • Brokenhearted, she agrees to marry the Sultan on the proviso that he is able to fulfill seven prohibitive conditions: When the Sultan learns of the Princess' prohibitive conditions, he is more determined to marry her.  - Puteri Gunung Ledang (film)
  • The expense is prohibitive and Colin soon exhausts his funds.  - Froth on the Daydream

Example sentences for "prohibitive" in interesting articles

  • He said:The bandwidth might not be as prohibitive as you think … if the network were to get [as big as VISA], it would take several years, and by then, sending [the equivalent of] 2 HD movies over the Internet would probably not seem like a big deal.It’s a simple argument: look at what existing payment networks handle, look at what it’d take for Bitcoin to do the same, and then point out that growth doesn’t happen overnight.  - The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
  • In order enable the push notification feature with minimal latency on top of an existing pull-based database, the entire update stream has to be evaluated in real-time.And this is what Baqend uses Apache Storm for.Figure 8: Baqend matches all queries against all incoming update operations to keep result sets up-to-date.Figure 8 shows the basic architecture that makes this seemingly prohibitive task feasible.  - Scalable Stream Processing: A Survey of Storm, Samza, Spark and Flink
  • The funding for this simply does not exist (yet).Another unfortunate reality is that while Sudbury tuition tends to be much lower than at other private schools, it is still prohibitive for low-income families.  - The school that hates rules
  • For the majority, it is a prohibitive channel.The second way that discovery favors the discovered is the structure and layout of the app stores.  - Mobile App Developers Are Suffering
  • A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre, however subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially brining the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science."There is hope," Harold "Sonny" White of NASA's Johnson Space Center said here Friday (Sept.  - Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say
  • With these improvements in place, we can continue the process of adding TLS to our video streams for clients that support it, without suffering prohibitive performance hits.Read more details in this paper and the follow up paper.  - Protecting Netflix Viewing Privacy at Scale
  • The funding for this simply does not exist (yet).Another unfortunate reality is that while Sudbury tuition tends to be much lower than at other private schools, it is still prohibitive for low-income families.  - The school that hates rules
  • "Banks continue to build and structure their lending operations in a way that avoids or fails to meaningfully serve communities of colour, based on assumptions about the financial risk," Vanita Gupta, the justice department's top civil rights lawyer, said last September, as she pledged more action to stop discriminatory lending.Another factor which made access to housing prohibitive were the restrictive racial covenants written into housing contracts.  - Why don't black and white Americans live together?
  • But while there is apparent demand the costs are still too prohibitive for mainstream adoption.  - The Internet of Pointless Things
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Meaning of "prohibitive" in English

  • tending to discourage (especially of prices)

Meaning of "prohibitive" in Hindi

  • रोकने वाला ( Rokane vala, rokane vaalaa, rokane wala)
  • मनाही करने वाला ( Manahi karane vala, manahee karane vaalaa, manahi karane wala)
  • निषेधात्मक ( Nishedhatmak, nishedhaatmak)
  • निषेधक ( Nishedhak)
  • प्रतिषेधक ( Pratishedhak)
  • प्रतिषेधात्मक ( Pratishedhatmak, pratishedhaatmak)

Synonyms of "prohibitive"

  • prohibitory

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