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zero-base

/zeer-oh-beys/US // ˈzɪər oʊˌbeɪs //

零基,零基础,零基数,零基点

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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.