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What does extortionate mean?

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Adjective
  1. of, related to or typifying extortion
  2. greatly exceeding what is reasonable or moderate; exorbitant
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There was beer, there was music and there was undercooked greasy food at extortionate prices.
This means that everyone wanting to purchase a home in Alice Springs is forced to pay an extortionate price.
Rather, he is keen to defend football from the usual allegations that ticket prices are extortionate.
Elderly people were targeted by doorstep tricksters and cowboys charging extortionate sums for gardening work.
You can travel during school terms, escaping screaming children and extortionate prices.
They grievously overstate the costs of bringing new drugs to market in hopes of wringing extortionate payments from desperate patients.

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