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at a premium

ADJECTIVE
dear
Synonyms
STRONGEST
valuable
STRONG
fancy high steep stiff
WEAK
an arm and a leg cher costly high-priced out of sight overpriced pretty penny pricey prized
Antonyms
STRONG
moderate soft
WEAK
cheap common despised hateful inexpensive low-priced unimportant valueless worthless
ADJECTIVE
expensive
Synonyms
STRONGEST
costly extravagant fancy high lavish overpriced pricey upscale valuable
WEAK
an arm and a leg big-ticket dear excessive exorbitant highway robbery holdup immoderate inordinate invaluable out of sight plush posh pretty penny rich ritzy sky-high steep stiff swank too high uneconomical unreasonable
Antonyms
STRONGEST
economical reasonable unimportant worthless
WEAK
cheap inexpensive low-priced moderate
ADJECTIVE
scarce
Synonyms
STRONGEST
deficient limited rare scant scanty sparse sporadic
WEAK
failing few few and far between in short supply occasional seldom seldom met with semioccasional short shortened shy truncated uncommon unusual wanting
Antonyms
STRONGEST
adequate ample plentiful satisfactory sufficient
WEAK
abundant frequent

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From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

“But once that technical overhanging is gone, I believe it’s going to trade at a premium, or at least at NAV.”

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

Sometimes, that nostalgia gets repackaged and sold back at a premium.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

In a note earlier this month, Seaport analyst Jay Goldberg wrote that Apple is buying up memory chips at a premium in a bid to seize share from competitors.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

There is also the problem that access to telescopes is always at a premium and historically measuring red shifts has been notably costly in telescope time.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson