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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having each expenditure or item justified as to need or cost.
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Examples
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But if you don't address them, and continually try to zero-base your schedule, it will end up managing you instead of the other way around.
Ron Ashkenas: Is Your Calendar Managing You? Ron Ashkenas 2011
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But if you don't address them, and continually try to zero-base your schedule, it will end up managing you instead of the other way around.
Ron Ashkenas: Is Your Calendar Managing You? Ron Ashkenas 2011
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Perhaps the most perverse reason for higher tuition costs is that institutions of higher learning rarely, if ever, zero-base their budgets.
Jonathan R. Cole: No Concept of Death Jonathan R. Cole 2010
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Perhaps the most perverse reason for higher tuition costs is that institutions of higher learning rarely, if ever, zero-base their budgets.
Jonathan R. Cole: No Concept of Death Jonathan R. Cole 2010
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Perhaps the most perverse reason for higher tuition costs is that institutions of higher learning rarely, if ever, zero-base their budgets.
Jonathan R. Cole: No Concept of Death Jonathan R. Cole 2010
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One way to do this is to start from a zero-base, where ministries have to justify every yen, which the government has promised to do with Japan's so-called special accounts budget in the autumn.
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Perhaps the most perverse reason for higher tuition costs is that institutions of higher learning rarely, if ever, zero-base their budgets.
Jonathan R. Cole: No Concept of Death Jonathan R. Cole 2010
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So there were times when I wanted to zero-base budget, and to cut taxes even more, and I didn't have enough support in order to accomplish that.
Transcript of Palin, Biden debate ITY CNN 2008
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But the new congressional leadership talks about "zero-base" budgeting, a worthy concept that requires every spending decision to be justified.
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At PDF, I ask Vint Cerf — who said the FCC should die — to zero-base what government should or must do: regulation, incentive, investment.
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