What's the difference between bailiff and myrmidon?

Bailiff


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted.
  • (n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.
  • (n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Figures from the Ministry of Justice show that 11,100 properties were repossessed by bailiffs between July and September this year , the highest quarterly figure since records began in 2000.
  • (2) Data obtained by the Guardian last year showed that government cuts to council tax benefits had left 670,000 facing bailiffs in the first six months of 2013.
  • (3) In around 1300, the peasants of Bocking in Essex (later a centre of the 1381 peasants’ revolt) appealed to Magna Carta in a struggle against their lord’s bailiff.
  • (4) The company got an emergency injunction from the high court and without warning bailiffs evicted us early on Christmas Eve.
  • (5) After initially insisting that the first anyone in the government knew about the £1.7bn was when Jean-Claude Juncker sent in the bailiffs on Friday, he later admitted that George Osborne might just have learned about it three days earlier and forgotten to tell him.
  • (6) Applied nationwide, it would cut bailiff interventions by around 150,000 and save the government about £30m.
  • (7) Police and enforcement officers then moved to evict squatters from another building in the complex, also owned by a subsidiary of the Swiss banking group, during which observers claim a photographer was punched in the face by a bailiff who then allegedly drove his car towards at least one person and carried another on his bonnet for 50 yards.
  • (8) In a survey of 500 people who had been pursued by bailiffs over council tax debts, 38% said they were charged fees for visits that were never made.
  • (9) Unlike some rival organisations, Wonga doesn't use bailiffs to force people to pay money, and has developed a "hardship team" to deal with clients who are unable to pay, but some clients have had difficulties persuading Wonga to stop taking payments out of their account.
  • (10) Police are ready to give the fullest support to the bailiffs to execute the court order tomorrow,” the statement said.
  • (11) Nobody wants anyone to go to prison for non-payment of anything, but you have to consider what the other options are – civil remedies, bailiffs, are equally not a very pleasant way to go down,” she said.
  • (12) Once it became apparent that eviction – involving police and bailiffs – was on the cards, he knew he could no longer continue.
  • (13) Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: "Bailiff firms must treat people fairly and make sure their actions aren't driving people deeper into unmanageable debt.
  • (14) No locksmith can defeat it, no bailiff kick it in; patrolling policemen pass it, because it is visible only to the eye of faith.
  • (15) One of the black-clad court bailiffs with automatic weapons who sit beside the dock has closed his eyes.
  • (16) When the bailiffs arrived, they gave the protesters a notice in the name of Finchley and Golders Green Conservative association asking them to vacate the premises under common law, a rarely used legal route.
  • (17) Researchers say that more than 500,000 of the families at risk from the bailiffs have a taxable income of less than £20,000.
  • (18) Poor Jeremy Hunt , condemned by the cycle of contract negotiations to find himself pitched against them, like a bailiff come to evict the sisters of mercy.
  • (19) In five days' time, police and bailiffs will evict her and several dozen householders , some of whom have squatted the property for more than 30 years.
  • (20) Sir Geoffrey Rowland, the current bailiff of Guernsey, told the researchers: "It is an immensely important archive, demonstrating their bravery and courage.

Myrmidon


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.
  • (n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Could you please come with me for a second?” To this day, I feel like breaking out in a rash whenever I hear khanoumi or khanoumam , so closely associated are they with the special vocabulary of Iran’s morality myrmidons.
  • (2) His ­ myrmidons sniff out plotters , arm-twisting local party ­chairmen, calling suspects in the ­middle of the night.

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