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Precept meaning
A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct. | A written command, especially a demand for payment. | An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
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Example sentences (20)
The breach of this precept is arrogance, and observers of the precept are called modest.
Eyesores in Sandown make writer question tax precept increases.
A Newquay councillor says he’s embarrassed to sit on the town council after it agreed to an “obscene and cruel” 27% increase in its council tax precept, writes LDR Reporter Lee Trewhela.
A proposed council tax increase of 2.99 per cent, plus a social care precept of two per cent are among the main changes affecting residents.
Councillors meet on Wednesday to set the precept on the council tax for 2024/25.
In recent months over 100 town and community councils in the county have been meeting to discuss their own financial needs and decide the amount of precept to levy on their areas.
Job goes and grass cutting stops - so why are Skegness residents facing 7.55% precept rise?
Mr Morris understood the city council had said there was currently no arrangement to simply return the Morecambe precept money back to Morecambe taxpayers, and questioned if there are other methods to reimburse residents.
PCC papers detail that without a maximum precept increase, the force would have to use more than £1 million from its reserves to reach a balanced budget.
The concerns come as the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Joy Allen raised the policing precept by 5.1 per cent.
We've had no choice to increase our council tax by 4.99 per cent broken down to 2.99 per cent for general tax and more importantly, a two per cent precept for adult social care which even at this time is not enough.
Along with the film’s powerful precept and reputable interviewees, its subtle production elements left me engaged throughout its duration.
Contrary to the American precept established by Nixon and Kissinger after the opening to China in the 1970s, Moscow and Beijing now have much better relations with each other than either has with Washington.
If a person does not adhere to the measures enacted, the police will issue a precept.
Our biggest question is simple: when can we expect a production version of the Precept concept to arrive on roads?
Polestar has, in recent weeks, been teasing the Precept concept from the inside out.
That’s an easy-breezy sum-up of an adventure story that traverses iconic locations in the world circa 1900 but also navigates subtext like xenophobia, classism, and the anti-evolutionary precept of human exceptionalism.
The environmentalist precept of “reduce, reuse, recycle” is an aesthetic touchstone for the designer Emily Bode, isolating since mid-March in British Columbia.
The meaning of this precept was perfected when the Sabbath was moved to Sunday, the first day of the week, because of the Resurrection of our Lord.
The title recalls both a key Islamic precept and the Muslim Brotherhood.