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单词 top-slice
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Definition of top-slice in English:

top-slice

verb
[with object]
  • Take (part of a budget or fund) and allocate it to finance a specific project, service, etc.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Special factor funding top slices the materials fund before general distribution.
    • Student-based policies might be those in which a relatively high proportion of total government funding for higher education—perhaps 10 percent or more—is top sliced for student aid.
    • Trauma and other emergency services like cardiac and stroke services should be top sliced.
    • Lyons, responding to the publication of Lord Carter's Digital Britain report today, reiterated that he opposes any move to "top-slice" the licence for purposes beyond the BBC.
    • The campaign for top slicing the licence fee to give funds to other suppliers of public service programmes is being revived.
    • And they top slice the money from the education budget so there's less to spend on real education.
    • In certain circumstances additional tax relief is available by way of top slicing relief.

Rhymes

advice, bice, Brice, choc ice, concise, dice, entice, gneiss, ice, imprecise, lice, mice, nice, precise, price, rice, sice, slice, speiss, spice, splice, suffice, syce, thrice, trice, twice, underprice, vice, Zeiss
 
 
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