Premium
['priːmɪəm] or ['primɪəm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.; 'they encouraged customers with a premium for loyal patronage'.
(noun.) payment for insurance.
(noun.) the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value; 'they paid a premium for access to water'.
(adj.) having or reflecting superior quality or value; 'premium gasoline at a premium price' .
卡莱尔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for discoveries, etc.
(n.) Something offered or given for the loan of money; bonus; -- sometimes synonymous with interest, but generally signifying a sum in addition to the capital.
(n.) A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.
(n.) A sum in advance of, or in addition to, the nominal or par value of anything; as, gold was at a premium; he sold his stock at a premium.
手打:罗纳德
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Reward, recompense, bounty, prize, bonus.
埃西手打
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Reward, guerdon, encouragement, douceur, enhancement, bribe, recompense, bonus,prize, bounty
ANT:Penalty, fine, amercement, mulct, forfeit, depreciation
錄入:默多克
解釋/意思:
n. a reward: a prize: a bounty: payment made for insurance: the difference in value above the original price or par of stock—opp. to Discount: anything offered as an incentive.—adjs. Prē′mial Prē′miant.—v.t. Prē′miate to reward with a premium.—At a premium above par (see Par).
整理:维维安
例句/造句/用法:
- No,' replied Mr. Limbkins; 'at least, as it's a nasty business, we think you ought to take something less than the premium we offered. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The directors, before finally determining on the system of locomotion to be adopted, offered a premium of £500 for the best locomotive engine to run on that line. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- When you pay more, you are supposed to give a premium, and exchange is said to be against England, and in favour of France. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He'd be cheap with nothing at all, as a premium. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Almost everything testifies to the great premium put upon listening, reading, and the reproduction of what is told and read. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Native wood craftsmen were offered a premium on every new species brought in, and in this way nearly a hundred species were tested, a greater number than was found in any other country. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- You expected, said Miss Havisham, as she looked them over, no premium with the boy? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- And if the only way he can free himself is by adultery, does not your stringent divorce law put a premium upon vice? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- By demanding payment of the bank, the owner of a bank credit would lose this premium. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is upon this account, they say, the bank money sells for a premium, or bears an agio of four or five per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But I have saved my little purse for Alfred's premium: I have ninety-two pounds. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mr. Pumblechook was in favor of a handsome premium for binding me apprentice to some genteel trade,--say, the corn and seed trade, for instance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- When you pay less, you are supposed to get a premium, and exchange is said to be against France, and in favour of England. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The premium saved up on them all may more than compensate such losses as they are likely to meet with in the common course of chances. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- On the morning of Black Friday the indicator was quoting 150 premium, whereas the bids by Gould's agents in the Gold Room were 165 for five millions or any part. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Those republics encouraged the acquisition of those exercises, by bestowing little premiums and badges of distinction upon those who excelled in them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Bounties are sometimes called premiums, as drawbacks are sometimes called bounties. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The expense of premiums, besides, is very trifling, that of bounties very great. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
整理:泰丝