Prohibitatively

Term used in the legal world to describe the price of Apple products, especially tablet based computers that are otherwise irresistable to normal everyday consumers.

Wow I want that Ipad, even if it is prohibitatively expensive

by bumperaitken March 30, 2011

prohibitively expensive

something which costs so much it would prevent most people from being able to do or purchase it.

I was going to go on holiday to Italy this year, but with the rate of the pound against the euro it would have been prohibitively expensive

by ploppie db February 16, 2010