rebasev.

1843 New Age & Concordium Gaz. 1 Sept. 87 This object for human progress should be,—To re-base society on principles in strict accordance with those laws which govern the universe.

1893 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 6 63 It is an attempt to re-base the doctrine on sound anthropological and psychological principles.

1930 I. G. Nichols Prosthetic Dentistry xli. 638 The various materials employed in rebasing saddles are: modeling compound, plaster, and wax.

1968 P. Bowles Let. July in In Touch (1994) 418 He is now trying to rebase my appliances, which have worn down like a pair of old shoes, on the sides.

1997 Y. Sayigh Armed Struggle & Search for State (1999) xx. 467 Companies that rebased operations in Jordan flourished.

1932 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 95 296 I hold that no index-number, especially of prices, can retain its value unless it is re-examined and re-based at intervals of about ten years.

1953 S. Hays Outl. Statistics (ed. 4) xv. 167 If the ‘Bowley’ index is rebased on mid-1947 as 100, the December 1951 indices are—Ministry of Labour 126, ‘Bowley’ 129.

1979 Daily Tel. 29 June 1/2 The Government has been examining..the question of whether there is a case for re-basing the price index.

2005 Business Rev. Weekly 2 June 45/1 Our progressive dividend policy, which we've just rebased with a 20% increase.

1919 Times 23 Jan. 12/6 The re-basing of the troops on the small ports of the Aegean Sea.

1956 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. A. 119 256 It is felt both from the point of view of the structure of the indices and their movement that this rebasing is desirable.

2004 Business Post (Nexis) 19 Nov. 14 Irvine said they might force Merrill to make a ‘modest downward rebasing’ of its full-year numbers.