The advertising campaign must have cost them a packet.
»He dropped out of university but now he's making a packet in banking.
Financial and business terms. 2012.
cost a packet — Be very expensive … A concise dictionary of English slang
packet — 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… … Financial and business terms
packet — 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 ▪ … Dictionary of contemporary English
packet — 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… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
packet — 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) … New Collegiate Dictionary
Packet 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… … Wikipedia
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 … Financial and business terms
Packet 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 … Wikipedia
Packet 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… … Wikipedia
Packet switched network — A Packet Switched Network, or PSN, refers to the packet switched networks that existed before the Internet. The history of such networks can be divided into three eras:early networks before the introduction of X.25 and OSI,the X.25 era when many… … Wikipedia
