Meanings of cripplingly expensive in English

A transition to developed-world demographics is also becoming cripplingly expensive.

Even if Greece did manage to import limited amounts of food and other basics, they would be cripplingly expensive.

Radio-controlled drone cameras are enabling photographers to capture scenes that would previously have been impossible or cripplingly expensive to obtain.

But long-term funding at benchmark three-month rates, which mature over the end of the year, remained cripplingly expensive -especially for dollars.