(n.) A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.
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Baron
Definition:
(n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
(n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sabogal was one of a group of four Colombians who took over the reins of the country's biggest drug-trafficking outfit after the arrest and deportation to the United States of drug baron Luis Hernando Gómez Bustamante in 2004.
(2) There are some things even a billionaire petrochemicals baron can’t control.
(3) The term "barons" hasn't really had any meaning since the Combination Act of 1799 ; at a pinch 1825 , when the legislation to prevent the activity of unions was passed again, in the Combination of Workmen Act.
(4) The question isn’t even complete before Baron jumps in: “He doesn’t inject himself at all into our journalism.
(5) The recently described dominant yeast marker Tn5ble confers phleomycin resistance on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Gatignol, Baron and Tiraby, 1987.
(6) Baron, who tabled Wednesday night's amendment, said he would back the bill even though he regards it as a "second-best option" because it was important to try to get legislation through.
(7) So is this presidential election over?” asked Michael Barone , resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
(8) Even if the inquiry does not provide the answer, the solution may be coming sooner than the press barons expect as a result of new technology.
(9) She rented a flat to be near his grave at Vienne, near Lyons, and was befriended by a neighbour, the octogenarian Baron Philippe de Rothschild, who had run a theatre in his youth.
(10) The New York Times' Editorial Page Editor Andy Rosenthal called the DOJ's actions "outrageous" while Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron said they were "shocking" and "disturbing".
(11) 1.20pm: Our Guardian beat blogger in Leeds, John Baron, reports on the protests in the city: More than 2,000 noisy students have marched through University of Leeds and the half a mile into Leeds city city.
(12) The dusty and impoverished town has few signs of diamond wealth, and the word is that its senior baron recently fled to Maputo to evade Zimbabwe's secret police.
(13) The last bit means "baron of Guttenberg", a village in the Franken area of Bavaria where the Guttenbergs have had their family seat – an impressive castle – since 1315.
(14) HSBC has apologised for "shameful" systems breakdowns that failed to stop the bank from laundering money for terrorists and drug barons as it set aside $700m (£445m) for potential fines in the US and another $1.3bn for mis-selling financial products in the UK.
(15) John Baron, a Conservative MP and former army captain, whose urgent question forced Hammond to come to the Commons, said that the new Isaf order threatened "to blow a hole in our stated exit strategy, which is heavily reliant on these joint operations continuing".
(16) This is the speech you won't hear from Mark Thompson – or indeed anyone in British political or regulatory life: "This old proprietorial model, long run by media barons, operated as a form of protection from harsh realities the business might otherwise have faced.
(17) Autistic children, pair matched on chronological and verbal mental age with control children, were given Hobson's task of recognition of emotions and Baron-Cohen's False Belief tasks to assess the replicability of their findings of deficits in understanding of feeling and mental states in autism.
(18) Cody Tennant, his grandson, succeeds as the 4th Baron Glenconner.
(19) Leaving aside the more obvious consideration of whether to oppose Boris Johnson or powerful media barons is intrinsically leftwing – many Tories do too – it raises the questions: a) what are Sherlock Holmes's politics; and b) have Moffat and Gatiss hijacked them for their own ends?
(20) He wants to style himself as patron of the most ambitious urban overhaul since Baron Haussmann dramatically changed the face of Paris in the mid-19th century when he carved out wide boulevards and the Champs Elysée.