Using the word premium as a verb.

[Rei]

Is there any cases that you use "premium" as a verb?
In which case, what is the meaning?
e.g. We want to premium him.

thanks in advance!

[Diverhank]

I haven't seen premium used as a verb...it's not standard anyway. In your example, it probably means to give him a prize, if I have to guess.

[Skrej]

Hank's right, you can't use premium as a verb.

It can function as a noun (prize, reward, or something extra) or an adjective (exceptional quality, amount, or value).

Thus, you could 'Give him a premium', or 'Offer him a premium deal', but you can't 'premium him'.
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[Barb_D]

We should probably use the word "yet" with that.

Business jargon will adopt it soon enough, if it hasn't already. I still cringe over "incentivize." I bet "We'll premium that" to mean "We'll put a premium on accomplishing that" isn't too far in the future. (Ugh.)

[Molly]

Here, it is used, along with its antonym:

Since Kai and Super_Chode left and Bengal became inactive, Treebeard is the only one left in the panel but he is also pretty busy at the moment. It would help greatly if members like you or Jeydra could PM someone with nominations for guides that deserve to be premiumed/de-premiumed with your reasons.

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Uk/uk.games.video.xbox/2005-11/msg02681.html

Here it is used:

I believe now that families are being premiumed to death and have pre-existing clauses in some large conglomerate groups.

http://allnurses.com/forums/f100/clinton-unveils-new-health-care-plan-249876-13.html

And here:

McDonald’s “premium” chicken strips are 100% white meat. Fabulous. This “premium” product comes packed with 1270 calories in the bigger size (and who would order only 3 strips?). Visit this clickativity and be premiumed like you’ve never been premiumed before.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/scientists-perplexed-issue-impossible-calorie-award-2/

[Skrej]

I'm sure people probably do use it as a verb, but then people aren't always correct or in the majority. Once again, just because one can manage to find somebody using it, doesn't mean that it's correct, standard, or widespread.

I'm sure if you look hard enough you can find an example of somebody saying just about anything, but until those examples start showing up in dictionaries, grammar texts, authoritative websites, and are agreed upon widely, instead of a few examples off of a couple of blogs, or a couple of teenagers then we'll be forced to accept it. Until then, it's worth exactly what it cost you to get it. Nothing.

The freedom of the internet is that it allows anybody to put anything they want on it, regardless of its veracity, usefulness, obscenity, perversity, logic, rationale, or authenticity. Thus, anything found on the Net has to be taken with a huge grain (nay, block) of salt, cross-referenced, verified, and analyzed. To accept something at face value just because you can find an example of it on such an unreliable source is pure foolishness, in my opinion.

But then, some people are more willing to believe, I suppose.
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[Molly]

[Molly]

Would you say we can't use "text" as a verb, Skrej? Is it incorrect if we do? How about "task", can we use it as a verb? "Parameter"?

Do tell us what we verbifiers can and can't use from that bunch, will ya?