Definition of big-ticket
- the car was a big-ticket item
- The founders had hoped to address three big-ticket issues: the environment, nuclear weapons, and Middle East peace.
- —David Corn
1933
costly, dear, expensive, extravagant, high, high-end, high-ticket, precious, premium, priceless, pricey (also pricy), ultraexpensive, valuable;
exorbitant, overpriced, prohibitive, sky-high, steep, stiff, unaffordable, uneconomic (or uneconomical), unreasonable;
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