(v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
(v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
(v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.
(v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
(n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
(v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(2) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(3) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(4) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(5) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(6) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(7) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
(8) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
(9) Thatcher made changes to the UK's tax system, some changes to welfare, and many to the nature of British jobs, both through privatisation and economic liberalisation – not least in her battle with the unions.
(10) Customers won a significant victory in the battle with the banks earlier this month when a mass hearing was averted at Hull county court.
(11) Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone in 2014, has described the pain of battling the virus inside a hospital isolation unit.
(12) Campbell's assessment came the day after a United Nations report found that ground battles between Afghan forces and the Taliban insurgents had overtaken insurgent bombs as a leading cause of civilian deaths and injuries .
(13) After weeks of battling both in the press and in Albany’s back rooms, $300m was allotted in the state budget to fund pre-K in New York City.
(14) This is not some sophisticated, Westminstery battle, but a life-and-death, misery-or-decency choice about the very basics of life for hundreds of thousands of older British people.
(15) Donald Trump and the 'war on women': GOP confident mogul will lose the battle Read more Governor Scott Walker, who recently signed a restrictive 20-week abortion ban in Wisconsin , also opposes abortion without exceptions and has said voters agree, though polls tell a different story.
(16) Ernst had adopted conservative positions during the primary battle: she called the president a dictator and said the Environmental Protection Agency should be abolished.
(17) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(18) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
(19) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
(20) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Battler
Definition:
(n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence the appeal of Ridgewell, who went from out-of-contract at a relegation battler in the Premier League to a Designated Player in Major League Soccer.
(2) PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
(3) I’ve always been a battler.” He remains a shareholder in the company “at the moment”, he told 3AW.
(4) Howard and Crosby used a Queenslander, Pauline Hanson, to assist during the 1990s when "battlers" felt threatened by Aboriginal gains of land and other rights.
(5) But PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
(6) The former prime minister John Howard has warned media and politicians not to treat Pauline Hanson like a “scorned species” because isolating or attacking her will add to her battler appeal.
(7) PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the Abbott government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
(8) After this, a couple of new franchises – the long-awaited Crytek battler Ryse: Sons of Rome , the trailer for which managed to re-depict the Normandy beach landings as a battle of the ancient world.
(9) His hair wasn’t long, he was wearing shoes – he looked like he could be a real Aussie Battler in a couple of years.
(10) This was two points dropped rather than one gained for Sunderland, but at a ground where they suffered the humiliation of losing 8-0 last season, it was revenge of sorts and defeats elsewhere for fellow relegation battlers Newcastle United and Norwich City made it a little sweeter.
(11) Deaf for most of his Westminster career, he was an inspiration to people with disabilities, a battler on their behalf and a relentless pursuer of justice for underdog causes.
(12) Both campaigns (based on what they are saying in terms of their topline messages) look like they think the big bulk of 'undecideds' resides in the "battlers" demographic.
(13) The Manchester United manager said he had no words to describe the disappointment of the past week, going out of the Champions League, going down at Bournemouth and so on, so imagine his dismay when Alex Neil’s relegation-battlers took a first-half lead here and held on for three points.
(14) There’s a long way to go but, without Ofsted being there, I’ve no doubt standards will fall and we would go backwards, not forwards.” In his sometimes turbulent time at the inspectorate, he suggested parents should be fined if they do not turn up for parents’ evening; he said teachers who leave at 3pm should be paid less; he has backed schools that ban “inappropriate wearing” of full-face veils and issued a call to arms for maverick school leaders who are “battlers, bruisers and battle-axes” who will not put up with mediocrity.
(15) In Australia, it was former prime minister John Howard’s “Battlers”, those all-important aspirational voters of the largely white working class, who live on the fringes of our capital cities and in our regional centres.
(16) In criticising the 2012 budget, Abbott said Labor's plan “deliberately, coldly, calculatedly plays the class war card” by abandoning company tax cuts and replacing them with means-tested payments “because a drowning government has decided to portray the political contest in this country as billionaires versus battlers”.
(17) Xbox One thrills – and spills Ryse: Son of Rome: beachhead battler.
(18) You have to recognise that people voted for her.” Howard warned that in public debate in the late 90s the more Hanson was attacked “the more popular she became because those attacks enhanced her Australian battler image and she plays off that”.
(19) A self-described “battler” from Sydney has had the cost of his Domino’s Pizza order refunded after 18 months and a successful court battle.
(20) From an early age Silva was considered a guerreira, a battler, overcoming numerous episodes of tropical diseases such as malaria, and later mercury poisoning.