big-ticket item

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Definition of big-ticket item in English English dictionary

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big-ticket item

A luxury item. Although commonly referring to an item of significant physical size (e.g. a computer, sports car or big screen television), the term can be applied to any expensive item

Hyphenation

big-ticket i-tem

Etymology

() The term is derived from the idea that the price is high (big) and that larger products have physically larger price tags (big-ticket).