(n.) The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing.
(n.) The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention.
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of emergency demurrage of reserve beds on occupancy rate is not determined by the absolute number of these beds and their share in the structure of hospital bed fund.
(2) When planning the average number of bed occupancy days per year at a hospital providing emergency hospitalization one should take into account the demurrage of reserve beds which are needed for urgent hospitalization of patients.
(3) Freicoin imposes a "demurrage fee" of 4.9% on money held by users.
Despatch
Definition:
(n. & v.) Same as Dispatch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
(2) The hosts were losing 1-0 before the spot-kick, which was despatched by Yaya Touré, before City went on to score three more goals - with Etienne Capoue grabbing a consolation for Tim Sherwood's side.
(3) A focus of more powerful excitation created with the same strychnine played the role of determinant despatch station (DDS).
(4) All isolates were collected and despatched to a central laboratory where identification was confirmed and antibiotic sensitivity tests repeated.
(5) The initial response should involve despatching a team to the disaster country and provision of a control centre in the U.K. Special arrangements need to be made for staff and equipment.
(6) The foreign office despatched its man in India to Gujarat, to meet the western state's chief minister, Narendra Modi.
(7) The chancellor comes to the despatch box, his face stern and manner sober, to present a vision of the economic and fiscal future comprised of nothing more solid than a series of heroic assumptions, hypothetical figures and feats of creative accountancy – all anchored in the shifting, hopeful sands of forecast and projection.
(8) Once, despatched by my mother to buy a pound of sausages, I sat on it and the butcher said: "Oi, that's not for you."
(9) Methods of collection, preservation and despatching of specimens were also discussed.
(10) The required signal being situated before the R wave, and at a constant distance from the latter, the potentials collected from the thoracic electrodes are amplified, numerised and despatched to a memory which retains only the values preceeding the R wave and produces a summation of successive cycles, causing them to coincide using a synchronisation signal.
(11) The prime minister now has serious questions to answer after she stood at the despatch box and called suggestions of a sweetheart deal ‘alternative facts’,” he said.
(12) Maria Miller, the culture secretary, was despatched on to the airwaves to say Labour had climbed down.
(13) Seized with indignation and pointing her finger across the despatch box, she retorted: "I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man.
(14) | Nedžad Avdić Read more The Labour MP John Woodcock, a long-term advocate of intervention, said: “We’ve said ‘Never again’ so many times, and we mean it when we say it, but then, a few months, a few years later, it comes to nothing.” Commenting on Osborne’s speech, Woodcock said: “He gave the speech that should have been made from our despatch box and he showed a level of understanding about these issues which shows that, which makes me hope very much that he has a future in his party.” He attacked his party’s stance in 2013, saying: “I still feel sick at the idea of the then leader of the opposition going from that vote into the whips’ office and congratulating himself and them on stopping a war, when look what is happening today and look what’s happened over the last three years.
(15) Having earlier suggested he might use prime minister’s questions as a chance to give other frontbenchers to tackle David Cameron mano a mano, was he now demanding a quid pro quo and making a land grab for other ministers’ despatch box time?
(16) In anticipation of more violence with the arrival of spring, Obama this month despatched 17,000 more troops, and is expected to send the same number again later this year.
(17) A computer-produced summary of the quality control results, which contained scattergrams and a statistical analysis, was returned to participants four weeks after despatch.
(18) Between the 1920s and the 1960s as many as 150,000 young children were despatched to institutions and foster homes abroad so that they might begin happier lives in the under-populated Commonwealth.
(19) If a figure is found to have a part missing, it is despatched into a bin.
(20) Corbyn strolled in, chatted to the Speaker and the assistant whip, Phil Wilson, before sitting down next to Chris Bryant at the wrong end of the front bench, before someone suggested he might be better off moving along to sit next to Angela Eagle at the business end by the despatch box.