Expensive and Special

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Expensive adjective - Commanding a large price.

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Special and expensive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Special" instead an adjective "Expensive".

Nearby Words: expend, expense, expensively, expensed, expensing

Special adjective - Being the one or ones of a class with no other members.

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Expensive and special are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Expensive" instead an adjective "Special".

The entire sketch becomes this when it reaches a cliffhanger, and an announcer tells us about how expensive and special effects filled the ending is, only for the show to end without showing any of these scenes.

Source: Series / Monty Python's Flying Circus
In the past, they were also very difficult to use and expensive so it was rare that you would see any major special effects in dramas or comedies.

Source: Gratuitous Special Effects
Roast chicken is not rare or expensive at all in Spain today , but it was almost a luxury (a "special occasion" kind of food) in Francoist Spain.

Source: Comic Book / Zipi y Zape

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