Firm
Firm adjective - Having been established and usually not subject to change.
Usage example: the selling price of the house is firm, so there'll be no dickering
Specific and firm are semantically related. in unalterable topic. In some cases you can use "Specific" instead an adjective "Firm".
Both words in one sentence
- It's called the "cab rank rule." For a specific example, a clerk from a rival chambers offers Clive the chance to abandon ship at his current firm to practice at an incredibly prestigious one instead.
Source: Series / Silk - In his first appearance on Murder, She Wrote, Dennis Stanton is a Gentleman Thief with a grudge against a specific insurance firm.
Source: Recruiting the Criminal -
DI Frost then went on to point out to the suspect that Forensics could match the composition of the glass fragments to a specific manufacturer, namely a local glassware firm with a skip full of quality-control rejects quite near where the body had been found.
Source: GPS Evidence
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