| 词汇 | take-or-pay |
| 释义 | take-or-pay adjective[ before noun ] ukus COMMERCE used to describe an agreement to buy something, especially gas and oil, in which the buyer must pay a charge even if they later decide they do not want it: The company is locked into 'take-or-pay' deals with North Sea producers. They have renegotiated a lot of the take-or-pay contracts. Examples of take-or-paytake-or-pay We recognised from an early stage that the issue of market opening cannot be detached from the difficult issue of so-called "take-or-pay" contracts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I now turn to two other major issues: market opening and the take-or-pay contracts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The committee was strongly of the view that if the oil industry did not need take-or-pay contracts, why did the gas industry need them? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Equally, there is the problem of take-or-pay contracts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are backing the effort of the regulator to prevent regional electricity companies from passing on excessive costs under early take-or-pay gas contracts to consumers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is, in effect, one of the biggest take-or-pay contracts in history. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second significant issue relates to take-or-pay contracts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The draft directive deals with the take-or-pay problem by offering derogations from the market opening provisions for companies which encounter serious difficulties as a result of their take-or-pay commitments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Fourthly, we are encouraging the regulator to prevent generators from passing on excessive costs under the early take-or-pay gas contracts to ensure that there is no uneven playing field. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are asking the gas regulator to examine urgently the resale provisions of the early take-or-pay gas contracts to establish if they are anti-competitive and distort the market against coal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many will be on a take-or-pay basis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was structured as a take-or-pay contract with pre-determined prices and volumes for the entire contract period. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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