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minimum

[min-uh-muhm] / ˈmɪn ə məm /




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Under a collective bargaining agreement, the league and the union negotiate various restrictions on negotiation by individual players — draft pick signings, international player signings, minimum salaries, arbitration, free agency, and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

“Taking back the insurance cuts of last year is the bare minimum right now,” Dutta wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

The father of two, who has a combined household income of £45,000 with his wife Faye, is having to pay his staff more because of increases in the national minimum wage.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

The unions are calling for an increase in the minimum wage, which has not received any discretionary boost since 2012, across-the-board wage raises, tax reforms and better learning conditions for young people.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

A platoon of thirty soldiers or even a company of a hundred soldiers can function well on the basis of intimate relations, with a minimum of formal discipline.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Occasionally, however, the Sun enters much longer periods of reduced activity called "grand minima."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

"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

But the average of two presidential votes was 85.37%; and the maxima, minima and means for mayors and governors were respectively 83.86, 74.99, 78.36 and 84.73, 61.78, 75.72.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various

Account minimums may vary depending on the relationships between the fund manager or distributor and the advisory or brokerage firm.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

The transfer came with broader changes to an existing credit agreement, including revising minimum liquidity requirements and removing certain financial metric minimums, according to the company’s latest quarterly filing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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 weather report was routine—even boring—with details about air pressure, wind speeds, and temperature maximums and minimums.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow


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