Premium

(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' .

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• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• 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·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• When you pay more, you are supposed to give a premium, and exchange is said to be against England, and in favour of France. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He'd be cheap with nothing at all, as a premium. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Almost everything testifies to the great premium put upon listening, reading, and the reproduction of what is told and read. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• You expected, said Miss Havisham, as she looked them over, no premium with the boy? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And if the only way he can free himself is by adultery, does not your stringent divorce law put a premium upon vice? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• By demanding payment of the bank, the owner of a bank credit would lose this premium. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is upon this account, they say, the bank money sells for a premium, or bears an agio of four or five per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But I have saved my little purse for Alfred's premium: I have ninety-two pounds. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• When you pay less, you are supposed to get a premium, and exchange is said to be against France, and in favour of England. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• 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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Those republics encouraged the acquisition of those exercises, by bestowing little premiums and badges of distinction upon those who excelled in them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Bounties are sometimes called premiums, as drawbacks are sometimes called bounties. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The expense of premiums, besides, is very trifling, that of bounties very great. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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