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  • noun Plural form of banding.

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Examples

  • We need the government to scrutinise organisational pay, demand more transparency from companies on pay bandings and publicly expose organisations found guilty of fuelling the gender pay gap.

    Women executives could wait 98 years for equal pay, says report 2011

  • Now we publish it as bandings up to 90 on the assumption that over 90 is all the same, is that it's -- as you know from futures markets, it's possible to have more than 100 percent of available stock because you have the stock you have, and then the promises that you're due to take up on all of the trading dates out to the future.

    CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2009 2009

  • And it has bandings for 50 to 80, 80 to 90, and then above 90.

    CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2009 2009

  • "We have a statutory duty to maintain the list of Council Tax bandings.....this is maintaining accurate and fair Council Tax bands in the interests of fairness".

    Taxing by stealth. Glyn Davies 2008

  • She was visiting Cumbria on the local election campaign trial and was faced with local court ushers who were complaining about a regional pay bandings.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • On wooden poles which are to be reattended, bandings are frequently being applied against rot and pests as shown in fig. 2.34.

    2. Power overhead-line systems Werner Boschitsch 1991

  • The moss-green gown of silk crepe, with black lace over satin bandings around the cap sleeves, the deep-scooped neckline, and the high waist and hem, was suitable for any ball, and that was certainly what this had turned out to be.

    Tender Rebel Lindsey, Johanna 1988

  • The twins writhed in their chairs as much as their tight bandings would permit.

    Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

  • But when the feathers appeared, they were black with white bandings.

    Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Katharine Berry [Editor] Judson

  • Magical indeed the charm of this land, as of a land veritably haunted by gods: so lovely the spectral delicacy of its colours -- so lovely the forms of its hills blending with the forms of its clouds -- so lovely, above all, those long trailings and bandings of mists which make its altitudes appear to hang in air.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

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