(n.) A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.
(n.) Fig.: Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arcadia’s pension deficit was measured at £190m in the company’s accounts for the year to August 2015, but is understood to have grown substantially since then.
(2) Arcadia Biosciences is working with the Chinese government to reward farmers in China that grow the firm's genetically modified (GM) rice, with carbon credits that they can sell for cash.
(3) The aim was to create an infinite number of ways in which the story could be read – though Pears emphasised that Arcadia was not an interactive novel.
(4) It was paid to his wife, Tina, the direct owner of Arcadia who lives in the tax haven of Monaco.
(5) Ace provided Chappell with the £35m needed to show Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia group that he was a credible buyer for BHS , then made millions of pounds from a series of property deals and loan agreements with the retailer.
(6) MPs accuse Sir Philip Green of being an 'unscrupulous chancer' Read more “I think if Philip had assisted us, we could have saved BHS.” Chappell said that Green called in £35m of debt owed to Arcadia after finding out that BHS was trying to reach a rescue deal with Sports Direct, thereby blocking the deal.
(7) The cash will be coming from a seven and a half year loan to Arcadia.
(8) Following two landmark cases in employment tribunals that found in favour of unpaid interns, a series of companies – including Arcadia, which runs Miss Selfridge – have paid thousands to interns.
(9) This is £7m that went missing,” the Arcadia boss said.
(10) In a meeting on 2 February, just over a month before Green sold BHS to Chappell, Paul Budge, the finance director of Green’s retail business Arcadia, and Neville Kahn, a partner at Deloitte, told Martin that Green was unlikely to agree to take part in the pension regulator’s long-requested moral hazard review unless he was compelled to do so.
(11) Green and his family received a £1.2bn dividend from Arcadia in 2005.
(12) Wigley is a former head of Merrill Lynch Europe who advised on a range of deals including Sir Philip Green's acquisition of Arcadia, owner of brands including Top Shop and Dorothy Perkins, and advised on his unsuccessful bid for Marks & Spencer.
(13) Open Mon-Fri for lunch and dinner, closes Mon-Thurs 10pm, Fri-Sat 11pm The Vig (Arcadia) Further east, Camelback Road edges the Arcadia neighbourhood, where thirtysomethings have been busy rehabbing houses on 1950s and 1960s developments and transforming them into retro-cool mid-century digs.
(14) Despite splitting into “supergroups” Arcadia and the Power Station, Duran come together for one last show – their last with the classic lineup for nearly two decades.
(15) The owner of Topshop group Arcadia and department store Bhs was Britain's ninth richest person last year, with a personal fortune of £4.1bn.
(16) Arcadia is already committed to paying £15m into the scheme over three years.
(17) Chappell has claimed that he cut ties with Sutton, but Retail Acquisitions lent money to a man connected to Sutton and a log of negotiations between Green’s company Arcadia and Chappell in the run-up to the sale of BHS show that the billionaire was concerned that Sutton was still involved.
(18) Arcadia and Green declined to comment, although he has previously said that Arcadia is profitable – it generated pre-tax profits of £151m last year – and has made regular contributions to its pension scheme.
(19) Arcadia also agreed to pay £5m a year into the pension fund over three years.
(20) In 2004, when BHS was enjoying better days, the family paid itself a £40m dividend from the retailer and a year later it collected a £1.2bn dividend from Arcadia.
Arcadian
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Arcadic
Example Sentences:
(1) He accused the army of a "catastrophic breakdown" in military discipline and described the MoD's attempts to dismiss all the allegations as an "Arcadian fantasy".
(2) Arcadian Painters , he bills the pairing, his working premise being that the veteran American artist (who died on 5 July 2011) shares with the 17th-century Frenchman a devotion to classical antiquity.
(3) At Dulwich there's an assiduous School-of-Raphael-style battle drawing from 1625 and more attractively, a 1628 canvas, The Arcadian Shepherds , echoing Titian at his most sensuous and poetic.
(4) The number of nervous processes becomes greater; degree of their ramification increases; a part of neurons of Dogiel II type turns into multiprocessive neurons with some signs of Dogiel I type cells; growth cones and arcadian structures are present; giant processes appear; thick nervous fasciculi are formed; volume of the neuron bodies increases more intensively.
(5) Arcadian Painters turns out to be a study in twinned forms of vivid awkwardness.
(6) Dusty Greenwell Park is not the most arcadian of retreats.
(7) In a blistering attack on the MoD, he accused it of "dereliction of legal, moral and professional duty" and a "catastrophic breakdown" in military discipline, and said the ministry's attempts to dismiss all the allegations were an "Arcadian fantasy".
(8) And in any case, Britain – or, rather, England - has long had an ingrained conservatism, there in everything from our eternal fondness for the idea of some lost Arcadian age , to the clarion call of the great English radical William Cobbett , which suits the time of Brexit as well as it fitted the late 18th and early 19th centuries: “We want great alteration, but we want nothing new.” But something more insidious is also going on.
(9) Yet it's not their flocks that Poussin's Arcadians attend to, but an inscription on a tomb.
(10) Glossy advertising to attract this baby boomer herd tends to feature gentle images of arcadian bliss, of smiling men and women, white, smiling, heterosexual, smiling, holding hands, smiling, enjoying communal barbeques minus smoke and smell, smiling, playing card games in ordered, uncluttered scenes of dustless domesticity, smiling, dressed in styles that don’t come out of local chainstores, smiling, a couple frolicking on a swing, smiling, she's in sensible lavender swirl, he's outfitted by RM Williams, and is pushing her, gently, smiling, against a background of manicured lawns and gardens, all bathed in photoshopped sunlight.
(11) The sun always shines in the world of The Great British Bake Off, an Arcadian land where the currency is compliments, innuendo and pie.