(finance) Of a budget or budgeting system: such that every expense needs to be approved every year, without the possibility of automatically accepting something because of its prior existence.

Synonym of prisoners' bars (“the game”)

(military) an installation in a port or harbour used as a centre of operations by the country's navy.

plural of base right

(Scotland, law, historical) The right which a disposer acquires when disposing of feudal property.

plural of base fee

(law) A qualified fee; a freehold estate of inheritance to which a qualification is annexed.

The fluid, most often water, used in hydraulic fracturing

(molecular biology) The sequence of nucleotide bases in a DNA molecule.

plural of base note