(n.) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.
Example Sentences:
(1) A business degree from Heriot-Watt University and a job with Pedigree Petfoods followed.
(2) Heriot Watt and Aberdeen universities have also announced £9,000-a-year fees for non-Scots, but unlike Edinburgh they are capping fees at £27,000.
(3) Degree in business organisation at Heriot-Watt University Career Had trials for Hibernian FC 1984 Graduate trainee, Mars Pedigree Petfood 1986 Media sales, Daily Telegraph 1988 Media executive, Saatchi & Saatchi, made media director in 1990 1995 Joint chief executive, Saatchi & Saatchi 2000 Chief executive, Football Association 2003 Chief executive, Royal Mail He is on the boards of Camelot and Debenhams Family Married to Annette; two daughters
(4) When assessed at 21 d it was found that treatment with Heriots Crown Wound Powder or Coopers Mulesing Powder offered a significant advantage over leaving the wounds untreated.
(5) In the west,” said Richard Williams of Heriot-Watt University, “we’ve traditionally been more concerned with efficiently capturing and reusing heat.
(6) Heriot Watt also expects that a third of its student from the rest of the UK will be able to get bursaries to help the new fees.
(7) Although Chinese is growing in English universities, it is not available in Northern Ireland at all and only Bangor, Trinity St Davids, Heriot Watt and Edinburgh provide degrees in the subject in Wales and Scotland.
(8) The exodus from the CBI has continued with confirmation from both Dundee University and Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh on Wednesday that they too had quit, to preserve their neutrality in the independence debate.
(9) Professor Steve Chapman, the principle at Heriot Watt, defended the new fees, which will affect about 225 non-Scottish students there each year.
(10) Education George Heriot’s school, Edinburgh; Dundee University, MA, social administration.
(11) Yet this alarming trend has gone largely unnoticed by politicians or the media,” said the study’s lead author, Prof Suzanne Fitzpatrick of Heriot-Watt University.
(12) She enrolled in a course in precis writing at Edinburgh's Heriot Watt College, but did not go to university, partly because her parents could ill afford it, and partly because, according to herself, "many older girls who were studying at Edinburgh University were humanly rather dull and earnest, without adult style or charm".
(13) An earlier version said that Westminster, Leicester and Heriot-Watt offered no single or joint-honours languages degrees.
(14) Last week research from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh suggested that, with fewer people now able to buy their own homes, and the decline in social housing, the next 25 years will see rents rise twice as fast as income.
(15) The physics graduate, 26, from Heriot-Watt University defeated Shane Chowen, the NUS vice-president for further education, winning more than 60% of the vote in the final round.
(16) UK's 'gin renaissance' continues with sales set to top £1bn for first time Read more After hiring a couple of distillers from Heriot-Watt University’s esteemed brewing and distilling courses in Edinburgh, Silent Pool sold its first bottle of gin in November 2014.
(17) Heriot Watt said students on "enhanced", five year courses in engineering, physics, chemistry and maths would be charged £9,000 for four years.
(18) Heriot Watt and Aberdeen have also announced new and enhanced bursaries for poorer students from outside Scotland to offset the new charges but the top-rate fees were denounced by the National Union of Students Scotland as "terrible news".
Payment
Definition:
(n.) The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.
(n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.
(n.) Punishment; chastisement.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(2) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(3) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(4) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
(5) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(6) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
(7) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(8) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(9) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(10) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(11) Most (86 percent) had educational debt (mean = $20,500), and more than half of those with debt were making loan payments.
(12) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
(13) Tomorrow the courts are expected to sign off a $97.5m payment by the company to its shareholders, after investors took a class action lawsuit against the company.
(14) The payments were for services ranging from "project management" to "HR consultancy", according to the academy chain's company accounts.
(15) The four most common types of insurance that protect your income are income protection insurance, critical illness cover, life insurance, and payment protection insurance.
(16) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on.” The payment brings the total of fines imposed on JP Morgan to nearly $20bn in the past year.
(17) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(18) The payments are now more likely to made in shares issued monthly.
(19) Applications from Serbia, which account for 10% of the total, stem mostly from the dissolution of former Yugoslavia: payment of army reservists, access to savings in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, pensions in Kosovo.
(20) Without action today, the winter fuel payment would have decreased in value this coming winter.