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词汇 peppercorn
释义 peppercorn
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpep.ə.kɔːn/ us /ˈpep.ɚ.kɔːrn/
a small, dried fruit that looks like a seed and is crushed to produce pepper胡椒粒
 
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aji
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ancho
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cinnamon stick
coarse salt
common salt
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kitchen salt
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Examples of peppercorn


peppercorn
Additional benefits received by workers include incentive bonuses, free housing and hospitals, and land for cultivation at peppercorn rents.
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For the first five years the rent will be a peppercorn rent.
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I still fail to understand how he is to pay by periodical payments of a peppercorn rent for a road which has been dug up.
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It has no value to the commission since it is on long lease with a peppercorn rent.
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Many owners offered their houses in the national emergency, either for peppercorn rents or for nominal rents.
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As he said, a peppercorn is valuable consideration.
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That evidence was totally negative and contained not a peppercorn of constructive policy on the subject of milk.
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I come now to an even more important matter relating to the peppercorn rent.
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The second point is that this asks for a peppercorn rent.
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In many cases, ground rents are merely tokens—some are almost peppercorn rents—and do not in any way represent the value of the property.
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There will be a good many peppercorns before he has paid people out.
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They are absolutely peppercorn in this day and age.
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It is possibly akin to feeding a ravenous man with a peppercorn.
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There are long-term leases, annual leases and no leases at all, but simply informal arrangements, with rents which range from "peppercorn" to near-commercial.
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Frequently, where there is an estate in which peppercorn sales have been made, the cost of maintenance and administration per house has risen.
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