exorbitant

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• consider: Fair to say cost OK compared with other Luton sites and other airports but I consider all airport parking exorbitant.

Modifies a noun

• salary: It is not her health service it belongs to us the people who pay - her exorbitant salary.
• sum: Why are we paying him an exorbitant sum of money to do nothing?
• price: Remind yourself of the exorbitant price you can pay for worry in terms of your health.
• fee: Why travel far or pay exorbitant fees for acting classes?
• rent: The miners - mostly immigrants from Europe ' s poorest countries - lived in shacks provided by the company at exorbitant rent.
• fare: The powers of the Office of Rail Regulation should be beefed up to clamp down on train operators charging exorbitant fares.

Modifying Another Word

• not: Clearly these costs while not exorbitant as current printing goes, are no longer viable to us as a Society.
• grossly: Present legislation allows a court to set aside grossly exorbitant credit agreements, and to substitute them with terms that are fair and reasonable.
• often: These techniques allow for speedy and fair conclusions without the often exorbitant expenses associated with court proceedings.
• usually: In my opinion, the best thing that happens to specifications is their usually exorbitant price that keeps them out of the public arena.
• too: They had some nice choices, and there are specials chalked up on the wall and prices are not too exorbitant.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: We approached local constructors, but the prices quoted seemed exorbitant!