Trebling

Word TREBLING
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Definitions and meanings of "Trebling"

What do we mean by trebling?

To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.

To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.

To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.

To utter in a treble key; to whine.

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The word "trebling" in example sentences

Since joining the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats have faced criticism for breaking a number of pre-election pledges, namely trebling the cap on university tuition fees and increasing sales tax. ❋ Ainsley Thomson (2011)

£7,000,000 by taxation, chiefly by a measure generally known as trebling the assessed taxes, by which the amounts already charged in respect of these taxes were augmented on a scale graduated according to income. ❋ William Hunt (1886)

On the whole, despite the government's too-fast, too-deep cuts, tax increases and trebling of tuition fees, they stuck with the Tories – a situation which, if sustained, would mean we will not win the next general election. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the last twenty years, two billion men and women have joined the ranks of industrial producers, trebling the size of the world's industrial economy. ❋ Gordon Brown (2011)

But when you've got the trebling of tuition fees, they should think again about that. ❋ Unknown (2011)

That stance was outlined with an acceptance that Modric will find it difficult to accept his chances of moving to Stamford Bridge and competing in the Champions League, as well as "trebling his salary", according to Redknapp, over the coming months. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So when HUL chairman Harish Manwani announced on the sidelines of its annual general meeting in July that the company was in the midst of trebling its rural coverage over two years, it set the cat among the pigeons. ❋ Samar Srivastava (2010)

But Yearley said he was concerned that heavy ketamine users were trebling or even quadrupling their intake in barely a week to achieve the same effects. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the next ten to fifteen years this revolution will be augmented by at least two billion people joining the ranks of the world's middle-class, trebling its current numbers. ❋ Gordon Brown (2011)

Harman began by saying that Ed Miliband had received a warm reception in her Camberwell and Peckham constituency on Tuesday because voters knew of his opposition to the trebling of tuition fees, the abolition of the EMA and cuts to youth services. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The protest is expected to be the most significant student action since the winter of 2010 when, in a series of demonstrations against the trebling of university fees, Conservative party headquarters were ransacked, riot police clashed with students in Parliament Square and 393 arrests were made in London alone. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Shabana Mahmood, Labour's shadow higher education minister, said: This report shows that young people are being put off applying for university by the trebling of tuition fees. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Anything approaching a 10% fall or more, will simply give more ammunition to the long-standing critics of the tuition fee trebling. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And it provided a noticeable contrast with the deeply unpopular tuition fee trebling that the Westminster coalition government squeezed through parliament in the face of unprecedented opposition. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The chartered surveyor said it remained difficult for first-time buyers to secure a mortgage due to ongoing strict lending criteria, despite the number of mortgage products aimed at that part of the market almost trebling since June 2009 to about 180 deals, according to Moneyfacts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And it is in this context that it was revealed that applications to creative arts degrees were down by 27.1%, year on year, a figure that was seized on as a predictable effect of the government slashing direct grants to universities and the consequent trebling of student fees. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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