| 单词 | life savings |
| 释义 | BETA Examples oflife savingsDictionary> Examples oflife savings life savingsisn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help! Add a definition It is a sum which nowadays means nothing to most people, but to the pensioners £500 often represents theirlifesavingsfrom their poor wages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It often involves the commitment of their entirelifesavingsand a substantial portion of current income for many years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are driven to raid theirlifesavingsof thousands of pounds to have private treatment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Some people invest theirlifesavingsor redundancy payments and then lose that money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 However, people should not have to pay with theirlifesavingsfor life-saving surgery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 One woman was told she would have to wait a minimum of nine months for surgery, and ended up spending herlifesavingson private surgery. From theCambridge English Corpus In a civil court, for instance, you can be sued for yourlifesavingsif you are shown to be probably liable for harm to some third party. From theCambridge English Corpus For them it has not produced extra choice, but rather the loss oflifesavingswith no redress mechanisms available. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English Do not let us forget that to those small men it was probably the whole of theirlifesavings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He is living on the proceeds of hislifesavingswhich have been invested in house property, valued at £1,000. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The incomes of these old people are often derived from the proceeds oflifesavings, which come almost in the category of earned income. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He may have spent all hislifesavingson this car, as this is the only way to independence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard of the loss oflifesavingsand the destruction of businesses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I know of the powerful resentment which is felt by those who, in many cases, have used theirlifesavingsand virtually find themselves dispossessed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The first person involved buys in at a high level in the pyramid structure and pays £1,000 or £2,000, which may represent hislifesavings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are very genuine doubts and fears, because to people in occupational schemes pensions represent theirlifesavings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They shed no tears for the people whoselifesavingsthey destroyed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Most are small owner-occupiers whose homes represent theirlifesavings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Generally speaking, post offices comprise small businesses and the people who run them may well have invested theirlifesavingsin them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen 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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