zero-base
零基,零基础,零基数,零基点
Definitions
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- : Also zero-based . without reference to a base figure or to previous practice; according to present needs only, as opposed to a percentage increase or decrease of previous figures: zero-base planning; zero-base inventory.
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ze·ro-based, ze·ro-bas·ing.
- : to apply zero-base methods to.
Examples
Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
If ISIS “came into a base and killed hundreds of troops, then people would ask a lot more questions.”
Huckabee will also need to establish a reliable fundraising base, something that up until now has proved to be elusive.
Both are considered marginal figures in the House GOP caucus and have no real base of support for their respective bids.
Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.
The upper part of the stem is usually unbranched, but whorls of branches occur towards the base.
It is a vile world because it is an under-educated world, unreasonable, suspicious, base and ferocious.
But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.
In ordinary work, however, it is safer to base the distinction upon size than upon structure.
If he married that base-born creature Dorothy, no respectable person would ever enter the house.