fixed

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The hour fixed was the same as the churches, and it had been predicted that we should not get an audience.

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  1. adjective Firmly in position; stationary.
  2. adjective Determined; established; set: at a fixed time; a fixed price.
  3. adjective Not subject to change or variation; constant: pensioners on a fixed income.

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  • LVA Indices is a company that specializes in local Latin American fixed income, with offices in Chile (headquarters) and Peru. —  News
  • As consumers become more transient*, eschewing anything too 'fixed'-big ticket items having become synonymous with boredom, with hassle, with quickly-out-of-date, with maintenance, with taking up too large a part of budgets, if not lives-the move from fixed to ephemeral might just have some positive side effects for the environment. —  trendwatching.com
  • The archbishop added that many countries have undertaken initiatives such as "chapels -- fixed or mobile -- on the highways, visits to structures of pastoral service, liturgies celebrated in service areas and in truckers 'parking areas." —  Latest Articles
  • MTP would be designed as a fixed rate form of preferred stock with a mandatory redemption period ranging from three to six years or longer, permitting Nuveen closed-end funds to refinance outstanding auction-rate preferred securities (ARPS) and also to achieve shorter-term fixed rate leverage financing. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • A geometric progression is a progression in which the ratio of the successive terms is fixed, that is a (n+1) / a (n) = const for all n. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
 

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