(n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
Example Sentences:
(1) The small thin legs dangling in a banyan tree are poignant evidence.
(2) As an Indonesian journalist commented, it was difficult for others to grow under Suharto's "big banyan tree".
(3) The results indicate that in high and medium traffic regions, lead content of banyan leaves is high and is more prominent in winter months than in summer months.
(4) They step deftly over a woman lying across the pavement, her birch brooms laid out for sale, her two children silhouettes in a banyan tree that is their home.
(5) "I would like to be able to carry out genetic analysis of the algae in the coral to find out whether we can transplant heat-tolerant ones to parts of the reef where it is more exposed and so build coverage there," says Robert Tomasetti, a marine biologist also based at Banyan Tree resort in Vabbinfaru.
(6) The accumulation of lead from motor vehicle exhaust on leaves of banyan trees (Ficus benghalensis) growing on roadsides from different traffic density regions of Calcutta has been investigated and the values have been compared with a few samples from remote areas.
(7) We talk under a banyan tree that has watched over six generations of the Patel family.
(8) Built in an old haveli (private mansion), its airy courtyard, centred around a gnarled 160-year-old banyan tree, makes it one of the prettiest settings in town.
(9) Soaring deficit He continued to woo foreign investors and indulge in extravagant urban improvement: in 2010, his campaign to replace mature banyan trees with ginkgos ill-suited to the climate cost the city around $1.5bn .
(10) "The size of the deal is meant to show a real commitment on the part of the eurozone to stabilise the system," said Robert Pavlik, of Banyan Partners.
Trader
Definition:
(n.) One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.
(n.) A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) RBS had received complaints from two clients, in October 2010 and January 2012, about the activities of forex traders and in November 2011 one of its own traders raised concerns, which were not heeded.
(2) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
(3) Many adults' work schedules limited their ability to take their children to health sites (52.2% were farmers and 18.9% were traders).
(4) Traders are predicting that the Bank of England will raise interest rates rather earlier than its forecast date of 2016.... 9.45am GMT UK industrial production beats forecasts Photograph: ONS Better news in the UK -- Britain's industrial production grew faster than expected in September, driven by manufacturing sector.
(5) The oil price tumbled by as much as $3.25 a barrel on Tuesday after the world's biggest commodity trader called the top of the market for crude and a range of other commodities – at least for the time being.
(6) In 1998, when Jeffrey Archer's son, James, and his trader friends, known as the Flaming Ferraris, took a stretch limo to their bank's Christmas party, the Sunday Telegraph could barely contain itself.
(7) The City is rife with gambling addicts whose habits contribute to a risk-prone culture of the sort which helped Kweku Adoboli lose UBS £1.5bn, according to one London trader.
(8) Key, a trader turned politician who combines a CEO-style leadership approach with a down-to-earth, sometimes goofy personal image, continues to rank by far the highest in preferred prime minister polling.
(9) Senior Yen Trader: hey ...you think we be able to convince [Primary Submitter] to change the libor today?
(10) "25 at 4 [2,500 shares at 400p each], print that quickly," shouts one trader.
(11) A series of electronic exchanges linked RBS traders to those at other banks, particularly Swiss bank UBS, who submitted rates to the Libor panel.
(12) The UK has exported more than 5m cars since 2010, marking the best start to a decade, said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
(13) And just having clear procedures made it easier for poor, informal traders to trade."
(14) But traders today dismiss that collapse, blaming it on early errors in the experimental phase of the market.
(15) The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.
(16) Skilled manual laborers, businessmen, and traders were more likely to be infected with HIV-2 than farmers, unskilled laborers, and while collar men (p.05).
(17) They beheaded him with an axe and cut him into pieces," said Moomin Abdallah Ahmed, a Muslim trader in the Lakouanga suburb.
(18) Select traders were given the “Barclays leads”, the newspaper said, and from December 2012 to September 2013 a number of victims were persuaded to buy rare earth metals that did not exist, it is claimed.
(19) He asked "why [would a] good trader, risk manager be willing to work with us".
(20) He pointed to a group of traders and asked the company's chairman what they did.