cost a packet
1cost a packet — cost/pay/make a packet UK INFORMAL ► to cost, pay, or earn a lot of money: »The advertising campaign must have cost them a packet. »He dropped out of university but now he s making a packet in banking. Main Entry: ↑packet …
2cost a packet — Be very expensive …
3packet — pack‧et [ˈpækt] noun [countable] 1. a small container, usually made of paper, with a set of things in it ; = PACK: • United Biscuits produces 5 billion packets a year. packet of • Supermarkets withdrew thousands of packets of chocolates after… …
4packet — pack|et S2 [ˈpækıt] n [Date: 1400 1500; : Anglo French; Origin: pacquet, from pack] 1.) a) BrE a container made of paper, plastic, or ↑cardboard that something is sold in packet of ▪ a packet of envelopes ▪ …
5packet — noun (C) 1 BrE a small container, usually made of paper, with several things of the same kind in it; pack AmE (+ of): a packet of envelopes | a packet of cigarettes 2 a very small packet like an envelope: a packet of seeds 3 cost a packet BrE… …
6packet — noun Etymology: Middle English pekette, pakat, from Anglo French pacquet, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch pak pack Date: 15th century 1. a. a small bundle or parcel b. a small thin package c. British (1) pay envelope (2) …
7Packet switching — is a digital networking communications method that groups all transmitted data – regardless of content, type, or structure – into suitably sized blocks, called packets. Packet switching features delivery of variable bit rate data streams… …
8cost/pay/make a packet — UK INFORMAL ► to cost, pay, or earn a lot of money: »The advertising campaign must have cost them a packet. »He dropped out of university but now he s making a packet in banking. Main Entry: ↑packet …
9Packet Clearing House — or PCH is a non profit research institute formed in 1994. It supports operations and analysis in the areas of Internet traffic exchange, routing economics, and global network development.OverviewPacket Clearing House was originally formed in 1994 …
10Packet Switch Stream — In the UK, PSS, was an X.25 based packet switched network, provided by the British Post Office Telecommunications and then British Telecom from 1980, onwards. After a period of pre operational testing with customers (mainly UK Universities and… …
