(n.) A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like.
(n.) A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.
(n.) A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.
(n.) A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
(n.) A vessel for holding holy water.
(v. t.) To put or transfer into a vat.
Example Sentences:
(1) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
(2) In Wednesday’s budget speech , George Osborne acknowledged there had been a big rise in overseas suppliers storing goods in Britain and selling them online without paying VAT.
(3) The IFS gave this argument an airing today, and produced figures to show that – on such a basis – the VAT rise was a fair tax after all.
(4) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(5) These vat mutant strains accumulate and secrete precursor forms of the soluble vacuolar hydrolases carboxypeptidase Y and proteinase A.
(6) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(7) The chancellor said the 2.5% cut in VAT to 15% would last for 13 months and form the centrepiece of a recovery programme which will pump £9.2bn into the economy in 2008 and a further £16.3bn in 2009-10.
(8) Seasonal and habitat influences on the egg-laying activity of four species of Culex were compared in south Florida using jar- and vat-type oviposition traps.
(9) Jim Devine, Labour MP for Livingston, was reportedly under investigation for invoices he submitted for electrical work worth more than £2,000 from a company with an allegedly fake address and an invalid VAT number.
(10) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
(11) In the interview, he also pledged to scrap the 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products, known as the “tampon tax”.
(12) Darling's pledge to cap VAT at 17.5% and lower bingo taxes were overshadowed by a surprise national insurance hike and a squeeze on public sector workers.
(13) But the squeeze on living standards also cited has been exacerbated by the chancellor's January VAT rise, and the Bank clearly sets little store by his much-vaunted "plan for growth".
(14) Near the entrance was a sprawling camp kitchen, with mountains of supplies, indoor and outdoor facilities and open fires on which some of the cooking was done, and all of the gigantic vats of coffee seemed to be boiled.
(15) Such a plan could include temporary cuts to VAT and national insurance, the IMF said.
(16) The variable antigen type (VAT) composition of first relapse populations developing in mice infected with 11 VAT populations of a stock of T. evansi was shown to be independent of the infecting VAT.
(17) Osborne and Alistair Darling would be daft to rule out a 20% VAT band; don't expect them to admit as much this side of polling day.
(18) Vince Cable, the business secretary, claimed raising VAT was not necessarily regressive, saying the tax was fairly "progressive" due to the exemptions on food, children's clothing and other key essentials in the expenditure of poorer people.
(19) Similarly, the raising of the VAT rate is regressive in impact, so that cumulatively these and other measures have actually deliberately made the poor poorer.
(20) The reforms included changes to the Greek pension system and VAT regime.
Vet
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(2) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(3) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
(4) Results showed the greatest inhibition of noxious stimulus perception with Innovar-Vet, lesser inhibition with ketamine-xylazine and ketamine-diazepam, and the least obtunding of nociception with pentobarbital.
(5) Commonwealth annual funding for vocational education and training (VET) had increased by 25% in real terms since Labor came to office in 2007, amounting to more than $19bn, according to Rudd.
(6) White House plan to hire more border agents raises vetting fear, ex-senior official says Read more “But the fact is when the world changed, you have to change too, and so I do think there are amazing new opportunities now because he’s bringing nationalism to the fore, he’s bringing it into the mainstream, he’s asking these existential questions like: are we a nation?
(7) Getting them to safety is now vital.” While the EU’s hotspots approach improved the fingerprinting and security vetting of migrants, the auditors said that funding and relocation “bottlenecks” had extended the detention of migrants, with disastrous consequences for children.
(8) FBI director: new Hillary Clinton emails show no criminal wrongdoing Read more “Here in Minnesota, you’ve seen first-hand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with very large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval,” the Republican nominee told a rally in the solidly Democratic state, two days before the presidential election.
(9) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(10) People from all countries nowadays go through a vetting process, particularly from parts of the worlds where there is political instability and violence, and are thoroughly checked.
(11) The faecal egg count depression (FECD) of febantel (Rintal vet.
(12) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(13) A business department spokesman said the government was not planning to put a duty on police to vet union social media, specifically Twitter, during industrial action.
(14) The purpose of this study is to present measurement of ventilatory threshold (VeT) and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) in a large group of predominantly older subjects using a bicycle ergometer and an automated measuring system.
(15) The official said the department does not vet US citizens' private travel to North Korea.
(16) I do feel the best interest of the country and the party and Tony Abbott are served by giving him the space to demonstrate that he’s listened to concerns and he’s acting and doing the appropriate thing to get the country back into a more stable political position.” Abbott told cabinet on Wednesday that he would make changes about the extent to which proposed staffing appointments had to go to the so-called “star chamber” for vetting, and the extent to which his office had to approve travel.
(17) Besides one group of control pigs, one group of pigs were pretreated with alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) combined with selenium (Tokosel Vet) injected i.m.
(18) For David Cameron to appoint Coulson to Downing Street , bypassing all the usual vetting procedures, casts grave doubt over his judgment.
(19) What she means, of course, is that Sarah Palin needs to vet them, instead.
(20) This issue was also raised in March by its new chairman, Lord Chris Patten, during a pre-appointment vetting process conducted by the culture media and sport committee.