specified amount

collocation in English

meaningsofspecifyandamount

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specify
verb[T]
uk
/ˈspes.ɪ.faɪ/us
/ˈspes.ə.faɪ/
to explain or describe something clearly ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk
/əˈmaʊnt/us
/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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(Definition ofspecifyandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspecified amount

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The first is when the government has to raise an exogenouslyspecifiedamountof revenue without recourse to lump-sum taxation.
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Aspecifiedamountmay be an incentive to one individual and coercive to another.
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First, the prescription of aspecifiedamountof water for agricultural use per year was an inflexible constraint on policy, even in the face of diminishing water resources.
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Any supplementary benefit paid in respect of his dependants is subject to the deduction of aspecifiedamount, currently £16 a week.
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One is age exemption, which gives complete exemption from income tax if the taxpayer's total income does not exceed aspecifiedamount.
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They can make increases providing the increases do not increase their profit margins over thespecifiedamount.
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There are three specified criteria, thespecifiedamount, the specified percentage, and the specified limit.
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The public electricity suppliers will be under an obligation to contract for aspecifiedamountof non-fossil capacity.
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The adjudication officer can decide to go up to thespecifiedamount.
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Therefore, as we see it, no harm can be done by increasing thespecifiedamountfrom £1,000 million to £1,200 million.
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What possible national interest can he, therefore, claim for interfering by aspecifiedamountin a local authority's budget?
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This will be done by phasing in three annual stages all rent increases which exceed aspecifiedamount.
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I think that that is only permissible where there is not a statutory requirement to sell in thespecifiedamountof 1 lb.
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All domestic ratepayers have their rate poundage reduced each year by aspecifiedamountin the pound.
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Obligated businesses will be required to recover aspecifiedamountof wood packaging based on the quantity which they handled in the preceding year.
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It applies to industrial undertakings which consume more than aspecifiedamountof coal, electricity or gas.
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They were entitled to a perpetual income of aspecifiedamount.
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They are to have power to make levies on industry of aspecifiedamountand to engage and dismiss employees whose remuneration they fix.
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Subsection (2) allows it to direct a particular person to hold aspecifiedamountof capital.
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