without profits
adjective
INSURANCEUKukusused todescribeaninsuranceagreementthat onlypaysanagreedamountratherthan one where some of theprofitsare alsoadded:
Thecompanyalsoissuesendowmentinsurances, with and withoutprofits.
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| 单词 | without profits |
| 释义 | without profits adjective INSURANCEUKukusused todescribeaninsuranceagreementthat onlypaysanagreedamountratherthan one where some of theprofitsare alsoadded: Thecompanyalsoissuesendowmentinsurances, with and withoutprofits. Compare with-profits Examplesofwithout profitswithout profits Yes, the water companies have made profits:withoutprofitsthey could not attract the finance that is necessary to fund their investment programmes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Owners have been running ships for years and yearswithoutprofits, barely paying a part of their depreciation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In 1991,withoutprofitsfrom third world debt, the bank would have recorded a loss of about £50 million rather than a profit of £36 million. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not one of those fools who say that industry can be runwithoutprofits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Firms are holding on to export marketswithoutprofitsin a desperate attempt to keep their market share and the markets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 What they have to apply their minds to when it comes to profits—andwithoutprofitsthere would be no work—is how the profits are used. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 For forty years they have been customers of the society under contractswithoutprofitsand membership. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The fact is thatwithoutprofitsand a stable economy nobody wins, except our competitors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, in general this is not an industry which iswithoutprofitsor investment or an industry that is facing bankruptcy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Last year, the gas levy was over £600 million,withoutprofits, and very high profits have just been made by the electricity authority. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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