prohibitively
/prəˈhɪbɪtɪvli/ adverbDefinition
› more than most people are able to pay: Property in the area tends to be prohibitively expensive.prohibitively high/costly/large The cost of retrofitting existing aircraft would be prohibitively high.
(Definition of prohibitively adverb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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