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at a premium

at a premium prepositional phrase: above par value.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Above par value.
  2. At a high, or higher than expected, price.
  3. Scarce, in short supply.
    • Disk space on that server is at a premium.
    • So many people were doing up their apartments that supplies of high-grade fixtures and fittings were at a premium. There were waiting lists for baths, doorknobs, imported hardwoods, antiqued fireplaces, bidets, marble slabs.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3

at a premium meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

at a premium in Tamil

மிகை விலையில்

at a premium in Malayalam

in great demand, scarce, hard to come by
അസ്സൽ വിലയെക്കാൾ കൂടിയ വിലയുള്ള, അധികവിലയുള്ള, മോഹവിലയുള്ള, ദുർല്ലഭം, ആവശ്യക്കാർ അധികമുള്ള, പ്രിയമുള്ള

at a premium in Kannada

ಮಾಮೂಲಿಗಿಂತ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಬೆಲೆಗೆ

Examples of at a premium in a sentence

  • Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:
  • Both Ameobi and Sunderland forward Darren Bent had gone close in the early exchanges but chances were at a premium thereafter.2011 January 16, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 1 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:

Questions about at a premium

What does at a premium mean?
At a premium means above par value.
What is at a premium in Tamil?
At a premium in Tamil is மிகை விலையில். See At a premium meaning in Tamil.
How do you use at a premium in a sentence?
Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings.
What part of speech is at a premium?
At a premium is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at a premium in the dictionary

  1. at a loss for words
  2. at a low ebb
  3. at a minimum
  4. at a moment's notice
  5. at a pinch
  6. at a premium
  7. at a price
  8. at a profit
  9. at a push
  10. at a rate of knots
  11. at a run

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: at a premium (page history and authors); at a premium (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); at a premium (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); at a premium (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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