â The annual fee on our credit card was high enough to cause some serious concern among my partner and I over whether we needed to close that credit card or not.
pilotage. n. 1. (Navigation) the act of piloting an aircraft or ship. 2. (Navigation) a pilot's fee.
A pilot study, pilot project or pilot experiment is a small scale preliminary study conducted in order to evaluate feasibility, time, cost, adverse events, and effect size (statistical variability) in an attempt to predict an appropriate sample size and improve upon the study design prior to performance of a full-scale research project.