(n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
(n.) Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
(n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
(n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
(v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
(2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
(4) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(5) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(6) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
(7) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(8) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
(9) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(10) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(11) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
(12) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(13) 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.
(14) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
(15) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(16) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(17) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
(18) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(19) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(20) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
Rebate
Definition:
(v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
(v. t.) To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.
(v. i.) To abate; to withdraw.
(n.) Diminution.
(n.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.
(n.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
(n.) A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
(n.) An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
(n.) A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
(v. t.) To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) UK negotiatiors, though, fought back hard -- thus Cameron's fighting talk in his press conference ( see 12.46pm ) 12.49pm BST Open Europe tweets Cameron's tough talk on the rebate: Open Europe (@OpenEurope) Cameron: in Feb we reached a clear deal rebate would remain unchanged, since then some have tried to question this agreement June 28, 2013 Open Europe (@OpenEurope) Cameron: I defeated these attempts to change the rebate, it will remain unchanged for this long term budget June 28, 2013 12.46pm BST David Cameron press conference underway In Brussels, David Cameron is holding his press conference now.
(2) Senior government sources have confirmed the budget razor gang has the fuel tax credit (formerly known as the diesel fuel rebate) “firmly in its sights” – a scheme that rebates miners and farmers and others for the off-road use of diesel.
(3) Established methods of drug product management, such as formularies and MACs, were most commonly reported by HMOs; however, nearly half reported using new approaches, including contracts with manufacturers, incentives, such as discounts and rebates based on use, and exclusive or preferred status.
(4) If there had been no rebate, the UK would have paid more to the common budget than the other countries.
(5) We will retain the UK rebate, but it must be bearable for the other net contributors."
(6) He also launched a strong attack on Labour, which brokered an above-inflation increase and placed the British EU rebate on the table when it led the last budget negotiations during the 2005 UK presidency of the EU.
(7) Although it will include some $150bn in tax relief for people on low and middle incomes, the Obama administration's emphasis on spending marks a shift from the approach of George Bush, who tried to stimulate the economy over the summer simply by sending out millions of tax rebate cheques.
(8) The deputy prime minister and leader of the Nationals, Warren Truss, said: “Nothing that comes out of Paris will affect or have any impact on the diesel fuel rebate.” George Christensen, a Liberal National party MP based in regional Queensland, said signing the proposed communique would be “madness”.
(9) Banks and insurance companies regulated by the Bank of England are receiving a £8m rebate on the fees they pay to fund the banking watchdog – partly as a result of a fine imposed on Royal Bank of Scotland .
(10) As Guardian Australia reported, the government was also seriously considering changes to the rebate paid to farmers and miners for the off-road use of diesel, but after fierce lobbying from both sectorsit is understood to have dropped the idea.
(11) Brussels has never liked the UK’s rebate and it seems unlikely an independent Scotland would be allowed to keep a share of it.
(12) It would approach EU negotiations on the basis of "continuity of effect", meaning that it would expect the provisions that apply to the UK (ie, euro opt-out, the rebate) to continue to apply.
(13) The people who are the super-super-rich buying their houses for £140m, this is not necessarily going to affect them because they have got their tax rebates and their amazing accountants.
(14) Cameron showed he would fight hard to retain the rebate when he was asked on Wednesday by the Tory MP David Nuttall to give a commitment that he would not agree to further reductions.
(15) Following Money's intervention, HomeServe rang Rayner, explained why his premium had risen, and gave him a £100 rebate.
(16) All he is doing is simply counting the rebate that was due anyway, a rebate that was never in doubt, trying to fool people into thinking the bill has been halved.
(17) It has emerged that ministers are considering how to persuade most of the country's 27m homeowners to take part in the flagship scheme - which could lead to incentives such as a rebate on council tax or stamp duty.
(18) Lawyers acting on behalf of three jobseekers including Cait Reilly – the unemployed graduate forced to work unpaid in Poundland – are hoping to overturn a controversial law introduced by the DWP in March which allowed the department to ignore court judgments awarding more than £100m in benefits rebates to a quarter of a million jobseekers.
(19) The changes to rebates for short consultations were part of the government’s “plan B” for Medicare , after Abbott and Dutton conceded in December that the budget policy to introduce a co-payment would not pass the Senate.
(20) This could begin as early as daycare, with accredited agencies being funded to provide children aged one to four with specialty education about water familiarisation and general water safety – including teaching toddlers how to ‘swim to the side to stay alive’.” Hart called on the government to offer swimming lesson rebates to help reduce the financial burden, which can reach up to $300 per term .