exceed
/ɪkˈsiːd
/ /ɛkˈsiːd/- Duties on quantities exceeding the quotas will be gradually reduced until their full lifting in 2006-2007.
- In the most populated areas of California, the cost of living far exceeds the national average.
- The OPEC nations habitually cheat on each other by exceeding the production quotas that they agree to.
- The noise levels are monitored, he said, and the range never exceeded the limits allowed in the Noise Pollution Regulations.
- For this reason, drivers are allowed to exceed the speed limit on such calls.
- It is within the Prime Minister's powers to exceed the speed limit, if she is on urgent public business.
Synonyms
- Walton expects economic growth to exceed the MPC's base case, due to buoyant exports and investment.
- Year after year, economic and income growth exceeded prevailing, modest expectations.
- This is for the first time in close to a decade that that economic growth has exceeded the 8 per cent mark.
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exceedance
- The summer of 1998, for example, saw a record number of ozone exceedances averaged over New England.
- In general, compliance with the remaining parameters was high with only isolated exceedances reported.
- Under the "risk-based" approach, however, the developer could simply purchase the carrying capacity exceedance.
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'go over a boundary or specified point'): from Old French exceder, from Latin excedere, from ex- 'out' + cedere 'go'.
cede from early 16th century:
Cede is from French céder or Latin cedere ‘to yield, give way, go’. Cedere is a rich source of English words including abscess (mid 16th century) ‘going away’ (of the infection when it bursts); access [Middle English] ‘go to’; ancestor (Middle English) someone who went ante ‘before’; antecedent (Late Middle English) from the same base as ancestor; cease (Middle English); concede (Late Middle English) to give way completely; decease (Middle English) ‘go away’; exceed (Late Middle English) to go beyond a boundary; intercede (late 16th century) go between; predecessor (Late Middle English) one who went away before; proceed (Late Middle English) to go forward; recede (Late Middle English) ‘go back’; and succeed (Late Middle English) ‘come close after’.