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{
"term": "premium",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "an amount of money that you pay once or regularly for an insurance policy",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a monthly premium of £66.25"
},
{
"text": "Intense competition has kept premiums low."
},
{
"text": "The insurance company has increased our premiums."
},
{
"text": "Premiums on many cars will go up this year."
},
{
"text": "We're struggling to keep up our premiums."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["annual", "monthly", "regular"],
"verb + premium": ["pay", "afford", "keep up"],
"premium + verb": ["go up", "increase", "rise"],
"premium + noun": ["payment", "rate", "increase"],
"preposition": ["premium for", "premium on"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "an extra payment added to the basic rate",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You have to pay a high premium for express delivery."
},
{
"text": "A premium of 10 per cent is paid out after 20 years."
},
{
"text": "He was willing to pay a premium for a house near the sea."
},
{
"text": "There's a risk premium of probably $10 a barrel built into oil prices."
},
{
"text": "a **premium-rate** phone number"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["hefty", "high", "small"],
"verb + premium": ["pay", "charge", "place"],
"preposition": ["at a premium", "premium of", "premium on"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "if something is at a premium, there is little of it available and it is difficult to get",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Space is at a premium in a one-bedroomed apartment."
},
{
"text": "Good student accommodation is at a premium."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "at a higher than normal price",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Shares are selling at a premium."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to think that somebody/something is particularly important or valuable",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The company places a high premium on initiative."
},
{
"text": "They put a high premium on customer loyalty."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpriːmiəm/",
"audio": "pr/premium/premium__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpriːmiəm/",
"audio": "pr/premium/premium__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘reward, prize’): from Latin praemium ‘booty, reward’, from prae ‘before’ + emere ‘buy, take’."
}