| 词汇 | skimming |
| 释义 | skimming present participle ofskimUKUS skimming | Business Englishskimming noun[ U ] uk /ˈskɪmɪŋ/us IT the practice of stealing someone's credit card details using electronic equipment, in order to use their account illegally: Cash machines at several garages throughout London were fitted with skimming devices. FINANCE, TAX the practice of stealing money from an account, budget, etc. over a period of time in amounts that cannot be easily noticed: The director's skimming of the charity's profits landed him in jail for a decade. MARKETING (alsomarket-skimming pricing) the practice of charging a high price for a new product in order to make as much profit as possible before other similar products become available and prices fall: A slow skimming policy is where the product carries a high price with a low level of promotion. Examples of skimmingskimming As such, the volume leaves the reader seeking more explanation on some topics while skimming through other areas explored too deeply. They will have the special pleasure of being aloft, skimming the under-surface of the luminous veil. And the bright red surtitles skimming across a railway station announcement board only proved a further unnecessary and aggravating distraction. Skimming through the book, the eye alights much more readily on words that have a resonance. They were given 1 minute for this skimming phase. Frigatebird involves an obvious comparison of the bird's shape and flight with a frigate skimming across the sea while hunting for prey. In the case of reading words, we read from word to word or from groups of words to groups of words, even if we are skimming and jumping around. Moreover, it probably also embodies a perception that government positions, even the most lowly and underpaid, offer room for ' skimming ', rent-seeking, and other modes of illegal income supplementation. The allegations were of what is crudely called skimming tax or of being unfair in taking business away from competitors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of these is a skimming boat capable of doing 33 knots an hour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A few people have the impression that low flying is indulged in lightheartedly with pilots skimming low for the fun of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been skimming and siphoning off the public wealth into private pockets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For example, a broad tyre holds well on asphalt, but tends to start skimming over water easily. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They have a policy of skimming milk and of creating more butter than can be used. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many other people are closeted with him, and it is no good skimming over the problem and claiming that it does not matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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