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[min-uh-muhm] / ˈmɪn ə məm /




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It also recommended an equivalent increase in the allowances available to employers for accommodation and meals provided to employees earning the main minimum wage rate, which Millar said she accepted.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The balance minimum was selected because these would be people who weren’t cashed out automatically for having a low balance, and would be presumed to have some engagement with their accounts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Smaller lot sizes = more homes: About 90% of municipalities impose minimum lot sizes on zoned lots, write Tobias Peter and Edward Pinto of the American Enterprise Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

To supply sufficient habitat, the conservation-focused National Wildlife Federation recommends a minimum goal of 70% native plants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

I’ve tried to get some kind of medicine to help with it—the vuvv can apparently solve this kind of thing in five minutes—but we have minimum insurance coverage.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

The researchers are now planning a metagenomic study that extends the time series to cover periods of even more intense sea ice minima.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

"We found that even when bulk pyrite sulfur isotopes changed a lot between glacials and interglacials, the minima of our single grain pyrite distributions remained broadly constant," Bryant said.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 24, 2023

Our home star goes through periods called grand minima when there are few to no sunspots.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023

She was able to get photos of the Perdita minima but not the hard-to-spot burrows she hoped to also find.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

This would apparently mean that cyclonic storms would be much less numerous and less severe than during the present times of sunspot minima.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington

The institutional share classes may also be available directly through certain brokerage platforms, and account minimums may vary depending on the relationships between the fund manager or distributor and the advisory or brokerage firm.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

But they are based on 2025 stress capital buffers, or SCBs, which refer to the capital lenders must hold above required regulatory minimums.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

The organisation said their documented figures should be seen as "absolute minimums", as getting information on deaths was severely limited by difficulty accessing sites, government-imposed internet blackouts and political repression.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

The court then issued a related ruling in Rutherford that prisoners could not receive a reduction in sentence based on mandatory minimums that Congress had reduced after their conviction.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

White men comprised 78 percent of the arrests for this offense in 1990 when new mandatory minimums governing drunk driving were being adopted.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander


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