big-ticket

See also: big ticket

English

Adjective

big-ticket (not comparable)

1. Costly or expensive; having a high price.

   Doing careful research before purchasing big-ticket items such as electronics, appliances, and automobiles can ensure that an investment lasts for many years.

   • 2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:

     Other big-ticket projects are the Northern Powerhouse Rail proposed infrastructure upgrade, for which a budget of £39bn over 20 years has been sought, [...].

   • 2022 May 13, Eva Corlett, “As the shine comes off NZ Labour, Grant Robertson hopes his budget can steady the ship”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     For [Grant] Robertson, that means investing significantly in the worn-out health system and pumping money into climate change solutions – big-ticket concerns he says he “owes to people”.

Related terms

• big-ticket item

References

• “big-ticket”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.