premium

Definition

  • noun: the price of insurance
  • noun: a reward or recompense for a particular act
  • synonyms: bounty, bonus, reward

Examples

  • Overnight delivery is available when time is 'at a premium'. [=when something needs to happen or be done very soon]

  • Customers are willing to pay 'premium' [='high'] prices for products that are reliable.

  • Publishers 'put/place a premium' on accuracy. [=publishers value accuracy very highly]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Why Don't we just move him into the Ritz-Carlton? I can tack it onto the I just dumped into his latest insurance premium. Yeah. The whale's worth more dead than alive. It will cost at least To expand that psychotic (..)
    1993 Free Willy