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at a premium

1. not easy to get. During the negotiations, sleep was at a premium.

Usage notes: usually said about something that is highly valued because it is hard to get

2. for a higher price. It's possible to get a large apartment, but only at a premium.

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The men shouted; the ladies wept into their pocket-handkerchiefs till they were moist, and waved them till they were dry; the excitement was tremendous; and Mr Nickleby whispered his friend that the shares were thenceforth at a premium of five-and-twenty per cent. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context Bonds were issued, and made their appearance on 'Change; "Phileas Fogg bonds" were offered at par or at a premium, and a great business was done in them. Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context Whether he thought the owners of the ship denied it to him, on account of its clotting his clear, sunny complexion; or whether he deemed that, on so long a voyage in such marketless waters, butter was at a premium, and therefore was not for him, a subaltern; however it was, Flask, alas Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context More results

References in classic literature

The men shouted; the ladies wept into their pocket-handkerchiefs till they were moist, and waved them till they were dry; the excitement was tremendous; and Mr Nickleby whispered his friend that the shares were thenceforth at a premium of five-and-twenty per cent.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context

Bonds were issued, and made their appearance on 'Change; "Phileas Fogg bonds" were offered at par or at a premium, and a great business was done in them.

Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context

Whether he thought the owners of the ship denied it to him, on account of its clotting his clear, sunny complexion; or whether he deemed that, on so long a voyage in such marketless waters, butter was at a premium, and therefore was not for him, a subaltern; however it was, Flask, alas

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

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