(n.) A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal.
(a.) Of force sufficient to fell or completely overthrow; as, a knockdown blow; a knockdown argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subsequent movement off treated papers was a step in the process leading to knockdown.
(2) Lamine Koné pounced on a knockdown from Jan Kirchhoff in the penalty area, evaded a tackle and squared for the substitute to prod home from seven yards and prompt scenes of unbridled jubilation in the away end.
(3) Charging in at the far post, Touré was a yard out as he applied the final touch from Negredo's knockdown.
(4) Knockdown was more marked with rates in excess of 90% and 65% being recorded for respectively 45 and 75 days after treatment.
(5) 11.57am BST Government warned: no knockdown sale of RBS Pat McFadden, a Labour MP who serves on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, issues a clear warning shot to Sajid Javid and the government over RBS.
(6) The combatants, well aware of each other’s strengths, were too cagey for that and, but for two knockdowns in the third, it was a contest that never properly took off.
(7) He says the Chelsea FC owner took advantage of his political difficulties with Vladimir Putin, forcing him to sell his interests in Russian oil company Sibneft at a knockdown price.
(8) The privatisation agency is facing a trade off between doing something that is fair and open and following judicial procedures, or something that is going to deliver needed cash.” He fears Greece could be heading down the path taken by Russia in the 1990s, when valuable state assets were sold at knockdown prices to raise urgently-needed cash, creating a new oligarch class in the process.
(9) It was all: two metres tall, powerful, in the middle, knockdowns, second balls, rebounds … but now I see Arsenal and Villarreal and they play like us.
(10) Meanwhile their two sons were trying out their own trash-talking skills in this rather bizarre green screen face off (presumably allowing chroma key footage of dinosaurs and car chases to be added in later): Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Though by the time Mayweather had endured that final bout of dad-dancing at the press conference, even the man who lives for showmanship seemed to have lost his appetite for it: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.38am BST Kevin is back All those knockdowns in the last fight were probably rather avoidable, as Kevin is quick to point out in his latest missive: The referee in the junior-feather (super-bantam in our argot) fight between Leo Santa Cruz from LA and the old Venezuelan Alexander Munoz was one Vic Drakulich.
(11) Moments later Chris Smalling struck a knockdown from Marouane Fellaini – another replacement – at Hart and he saved well.
(12) First, the striker crashed home a 31st-minute finish from a Marouane Fellaini knockdown.
(13) Both candidate adulticides, Esbiothrin and Bioresmethrin, exhibited quick knockdown 1-h posttreatment.
(14) Both mortality and knockdown of exposed flies was demonstrated.
(15) "Clearly the BBC does not want to find itself in a knockdown argument with the LSE, universities or the British Academy," said Patten.
(16) At a special meeting convened at Bear's 45-floor octagonal midtown office tower, investors nodded through a sale of the cash-strapped company to its rival JP Morgan at a knockdown price of about $1.4bn (£700m).
(17) The intervention comes as the Corbyn campaign reveals that a Labour government led by the MP for Islington North would reserve the right to renationalise Royal Bank of Scotland and other public assets, “with either no compensation or with any undervaluation deducted from any compensation for renationalisation” if they are sold at a knockdown price over the next five years.
(18) So why doesn't the Taxpayers' Alliance attack the wasted money spent on building council housing, only for the rent that pays for it to be lost when the asset is sold at a knockdown price?
(19) Eventually Murdoch offered up his stake in DirecTV at a knockdown price to get rid of his rival's disruptive influence.
(20) Typical of their shortcomings at the back was Sunderland's second goal, in which the serially disappointing Kolo Touré kicked at thin air in attempting to clear Michael Turner's headed knockdown.
Price
Definition:
(n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost.
(n. & v.) Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
(n. & v.) Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.
(v. t.) To pay the price of.
(v. t.) To set a price on; to value. See Prize.
(v. t.) To ask the price of; as, to price eggs.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(3) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(4) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(5) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(6) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
(7) And, as elsewhere in this epidemic, those on the frontline paid the highest price: four of the seven fatalities were health workers, including Adadevoh.
(8) "If you look at the price HP paid, it was an excellent deal for the Autonomy shareholders.
(9) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
(10) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
(11) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(12) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(13) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(14) At 9.30am, ITV was at 69.2p, up 1.7% on last night's closing price.
(15) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
(16) Supermarkets are slashing the price of cauliflower because a relatively warm start to the year has produced a glut of florets.
(17) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
(18) Large price cuts seem to have taken a toll on retailer profitability, while not necessarily increasing sales substantially,” Barclaycard concluded.
(19) In Europe, for example, the basket of goods tested has fallen 18% in Greece (Corfu) to £57.50, making prices a third cheaper than Italy (Sorrento) at £87.06, the most expensive of six eurozone destinations surveyed.
(20) The UN estimates that at least 10 million people in east Africa will be in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of severe food shortages, failed harvest, rising food prices and conflict in the region.