Premium

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  • noun. An amount paid or required, often as an installment payment, for an insurance policy.
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  • noun. An amount paid to obtain a loan.
  • noun. An interest payment, usually on a regular basis, on a loan.
  • noun. A sum of money or bonus paid in addition to a regular price, salary, or other amount.
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  • noun. The amount at which something, such as a security or a currency, is valued above its initial or nominal price.
  • noun. The amount at which a securities option is bought or sold.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Something offered free or at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
  • noun. A prize or award.
  • noun. An unusual or high value.
  • noun. Payment for training in a trade or profession.
  • adjective. Of superior quality or value.
  • idiom. (at a premium) More valuable than usual, as from scarcity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A reward; a recompense given for a particular action or line of conduct.
  • noun. That which is given for the loan of money; interest.
  • noun. In insurance, the amount paid or agreed to be paid in one sum or periodically to insurers as the consideration for a contract of insurance. See insurance, 2.
  • noun. In banking and currency, the difference by which the value of one metallic currency exceeds that of another of the same denomination, or by which a metallic currency exceeds a paper currency of the same denomination in the same country; agio: the opposite of discount, or disagio, which is the amount by which the value of one currency has depreciated when compared with another.
  • noun. In stock-broking, etc., the percentage of difference by which the market price of shares, stocks, bonds, etc., exceeds their face-value or the sum originally paid for them: thus, when stock originally issued at $100 per share sells at $140 per share, it is said to be at a premium of 40 per cent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty
  • noun. Something offered or given for the loan of money; bonus; -- sometimes synonymous with interest, but generally signifying a sum in addition to the capital.
  • noun. A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.
  • noun. A sum in advance of, or in addition to, the nominal or par value of anything
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Superior in quality; higher in price or value.
  • noun. A prize or award.
  • noun. Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
  • noun. A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.
  • noun. The amount to be paid for an insurance policy.
  • noun. An unusually high value.
  • noun. The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military
  • noun. a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.
  • adjective. having or reflecting superior quality or value
  • noun. the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value
  • noun. payment for insurance
  • noun. a fee charged for exchanging currencies
  • Word Usage
    "Bear in mind that we do not give a premium or open an account for less than _two_ subscriptions (one of which, however, may be your own); but, _after the account is opened_, you may add one subscription at a time if you choose -- never omitting to state in your letter _that it is to go to your credit for a premium_."
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    discount  
    cross-reference
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    superior  
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    cash  compensation  cost  debt  discount  
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