at a premium
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department."
- "Both Ameobi and Sunderland forward Darren Bent had gone close in the early exchanges but chances were at a premium thereafter."
- "And it had been a close-run thing for many of the nearest - perhaps too close. Councillor Renee Spector, a senior member of Birmingham City Council planning committee, told the local press that the accident might force "a rethink" about the way it considered future applications. "There is a case for a buffer zone, but the problem is that land is at such a premium it is difficult to insist on a large distance between houses and railway lines," she said."