单词 | like-for-like |
释义 | > as lemmaslike-for-like c. attributive. Usually in form like-for-like. extracted from liken.1 (a) Based on or deriving from a fundamental similarity between the actions or objects in question. ΚΠ 1914 Spectator & Methodist Chron. (Melbourne) 18 Dec. 1974/3 Six German residents of New Britain, who brutally assaulted the chairman of our mission,..received a like for like punishment by being flogged at the orders of the military commandant. 1952 Railway Gaz. 7 Mar. 256/1 The excess of like-for-like replacement cost over original cost. 1972 Irish Times 3 Mar. 21/2 In the like-for-like comparison, the cost of servicing an acre of land has increased 100%. 1985 J. Lowe Diary 11 Feb. in J. Symcox 1984–5 Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire (2011) 158 Even when cars have been vandalised, anger has never spilled over into like-for-like retaliation or violence. 2009 P. Lynch Wildlife & Conservation Volunteering iii. 29 Comparing organisations on the basis of cost is less effective than other methods because it is rare to find projects that can be matched on an exact like-for-like basis. (b) Business. Designating the sales of a company when compared between different years, taking into account only activities which were in effect in both years. ΚΠ 1986 PR Newswire (Nexis) 30 July Like-for-like sales growth was an impressive 21.9 percent in spite of very low inflation and very intense competition. 1993 Cookson Group Ann. Rep. 1992 1 Turnover decreased in 1992 by 5% from £1,305m to £1.237m, but like-for-like turnover, adjusting for acquisitions, disposals and exchange rate movements, increased by some 3%. 2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Jan. 3 The company's like-for-like sales figure excludes the four new shops opened in 2012 but includes online sales. < as lemmas |
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