(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.
Overseer
Definition:
(n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.
Example Sentences:
(1) The damage threshold during aortic valvuloplasty was determined in 12 normal swine subjected to inflation of oversized dual balloons.
(2) Porous polyethylene was thus better incorporated into the soft tissues than silicone rubber as long as the overlying soft tissues were not stressed by an oversized implant or inadequate soft tissue coverage.
(3) The parietal, squamosal, and exoccipital bones, and the quadrate cartilage were displaced when otic capsule material was absent or oversized.
(4) A literature review aimed at completeness, a study of the hitherto largest case material (24 cases), and a comparative analysis of the bleeding and normal gastric arteries gave the following results: (1) the walls of the pathologic arteries are of normal structure; (2) as submucous arteries, they are of normal diameter; (3) they are attached to the mucosa by virtue of Wanke's musculoelastic mantle; (4) at the level of the muscularis mucosae, they are definitely oversized; (5) in the area of the linkage of the artery to the mucosa, a vulnerable mucosal spot is created; (6) the artery is accompanied by a vein of similar caliber; and (7) perforation of the vein takes place before that of the artery.
(5) Analysis of variance suggests that the use of a 0.5-mm oversized transplant, as opposed to a 0- to 0.3-mm oversized transplant, contributed to the production of high myopia when tissue from donors younger than 2 years was used (P = 0.009).
(6) Oversized grafts should be avoided because of resultant turbulent flow and the tendency of thrombosis.
(7) Two nurses ready a yellow and black machine that looks like a drill press with an oversized button where the chuck would be.
(8) In 38 per cent of cases the reason for surgery was an oversized calf and in 84 per cent the operation was performed on the farm of origin.
(9) Still: “We had an oversight model that could have worked” – meaning the Congressional and judicial oversight systems for the NSA – “But the overseers weren’t interested in oversight – the Senate and House intelligence committees championed surveillance.
(10) HTC's phablet - an oversized smartphone, or small tablet - resembles the slim profile and curved metal back design of the well-received 5in HTC One Android smartphone , but features a larger 5.9in full HD screen that makes watching movies and sharing content with friends easier.
(11) I meet Olsen in London, somewhere east of Dingwalls (a venue she's due to play later) and in the neighbourhood of the Observer 's offices.. She's wearing dark clothes and oversized shades, pale‑faced underneath.
(12) Yet the relationship between the overseers and the overseen is not adversarial.
(13) With a tone at points mournful and angry, Udall, who lost his re-election last month, said “the CIA has lied to its overseers and the public”, and blasted the White House for not holding anyone “to account”.
(14) The authors' results demonstrate that within an oversized IVC, the BNF creates less flow disturbance and is less occlusive with clot capture than biiliac filters.
(15) The easy, cynical view is that this is just people with too much money and oversized appetites buying into hype.
(16) Late on Monday the new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, sent a six-page list of proposed economic reforms to Brussels which held to some of Tsipras’s election campaign pledges, but largely diluted or abandoned them to win the support of the other 18 governments in the eurozone, and of the troika of bailout overseers from the European commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) .
(17) Oversized balloons with a ratio greater than 1.3 (n = 35) caused a high (37%) incidence of dissection, with three severely compromised arterial lumens.
(18) These oversized disks had incorporated 3H-leucine and extended along the margin of the outer or inner segment.
(19) Kaepernick and Reid dropped to one knee while a naval officer sang The Star-Spangled Banner and dozens of military members unfurled an oversize flag at the Chargers’ Qualcomm stadium.
(20) Sixty-eight of the 88 lenses had PAS which were strongly correlated with the lens being oversized (P less than .001).