precept

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Parish and town councils can also levy a charge - known as a precept - to fund their work, which is not subject to a cap.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

In a sprawling nation founded on the precept of individual liberty and populated primarily by immigrants from around the world, there was hardly one American experience.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Police budgets are made up of funding from both central government and local government and the increase assumes a rise in the police council tax precept, Treasury documents suggest.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2025

From them, he says, he internalized the feminist precept that “the personal is political.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

And that’s when it hit me: my precept.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio