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extortionate

adjective as in oppressive

adjective as in excessive

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It can leave supporters paying extortionate prices, or being completely out of pocket after buying tickets that do not work, as well as undermining segregation of fans.

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Claire Bracey, interim chief executive of Become, says the report "is once again lifting the lid on the extortionate profits that are being made from providing homes for our most vulnerable children".

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Carl Walker, chair of the Jersey Consumer Council, said: "It could cost up to £400 per child to prepare them for school – not just uniforms, but stationery, lunch boxes, haircuts, coats, everything. It's absolutely extortionate."

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"Nine times out of 10 I will get a second-hand uniform because new it is just extortionate."

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"I don't understand how it's so extortionate here when other countries in Europe subsidise it so well," she says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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