Sentence examples for A vig from inspiring English sources

Is there a vig on recovered compensation?

"Nobody gets a vig on content on the Internet today," he wrote.

The result is that the government pays a "vig" to banks in order to reach its policy goals.

Here the university sector is lagging behind: we don't yet charge a "vig" – an extortionate weekly interest payment – but we have the moral equivalent: disapproving glances over the meeting table.

Yet Myhrvold is no less a warrior-capitalist than Gates, and one also sees the warrior in the memos that Myhrvold sends Gates: they contain bookmaker lingo explaining how he hopes Microsoft can get "a vig" by charging whenever a Microsoft platform is used to make a transaction over the Internet.

He spoke about the software giant's intention of collecting a "vig" from its web site.

They get annual fees from the listed companies -- up to $500,000 at the NYSE, $100,000 at Nasdaq -- as well as a minuscule vig from every trade.

Like a stockbroker churning commissions or a bookie grabbing his vig, an agent was simply looking to make a deal, any deal.

Both agreed that "Bad Boyfriend" should be included, but rather than solicit an outside producer, Vig spent a few days finishing the mix.

Katz called the vig "a profit, a fee" — the difference, for example, between the interest rates for loans taken out to invest more with Madoff and the rates that were provided by Madoff.

For instance, if a person needs a passport made, Vig and other volunteers will travel with that person to the proper agency.