(n.) A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Latest official figures seen by the Guardian, however, throw into sharp relief the colossal scale of the business, a back-office beehive of activity.
(2) At least two persons died from accidents directly related to the care of beehives.
(3) From the beehive barriers to the corridors to the electric fences, all of the strategies described above are being used widely across the world, with varying degrees of success and failure.
(4) It was also, crucially, the first step in the shift away from the Winehouse of common caricature, the Olive Oyl figure with the beehive, and the drug abuse, the saucy mouth and the baleful talk of "Blake Incarcerated"; the artist people had sadly come to expect – who had once offered to lamp a member of the audience at Glastonbury, and who had last graced a stage at a festival in Serbia, where she stood swaying and mumbling before a baying audience of 20,000.
(5) I'm a beekeeper and take beehives into schools, along with juices and organic vegetables.
(6) For a hotel with rooftop beehives and free bicycle rental, it seems a missed opportunity, especially as GreenLeaders is designed to assist conscious consumers in choosing a hotel and raise awareness about sustainability in the tourism industry.
(7) Established by St Kevin in the 6th century, the site has an arched gateway, a 30m-high round tower, a roofless cathedral, and St Kevin's Cell, the ruins of a beehive-shaped stone hut, thought to have been the hermit's home.
(8) US policy, he said, was akin to “throwing rocks into a beehive”.
(9) The Argentinian pope began his day with a Mass in Rio's beehive-like modern cathedral where he exhorted 1,000 bishops from around the world to go out and find the faithful, a more diplomatic expression of the direct, off-the-cuff instructions he delivered to young Argentinian pilgrims on Thursday.
(10) Sewill, 83, was at the opening of the Beehive, Gatwick's original terminal, as a seven-year-old in 1936.
(11) Almost overnight it seemed that the 5ft 3in singer with the cheeky eye make-up, bouffant beehive and the ever-present cigarette was on a destructive path.
(12) Deputed to load a pig into a van, young Harry saw the animal escape, and knock into a beehive, whose occupants seared its hide.
(13) "You know, this area began as farmland and we are just going back to that," says Rich Wieske, who runs more than 60 beehives in inner-city Detroit and sells the resulting honey commercially.
(14) And there are lighter moments, such as when he is mobbed by the children of Charlton Manor primary school – transformed since it featured in School Dinners – who all want to pull up beetroot from the school garden (and they all like it) and tow him by the hand to show him where the beehive for the honey is.
(15) Tanja's terrace overlooks her little vineyard, beehives and orchard, and we feasted on hot peppers, air-dried ham, filo pastry with spinach and crepe-type rolls filled with cheese.
(16) Crouch is developing a "model plot" that consists of rows of vegetables, some beehives and a compost heap.
(17) Test materials and naturally infected materials from beehives were used to check the resistance of the European foulbrood causative agents to the disinfection agents vofasteril, performic acid, and iosan and iosan-CCT.
(18) The message of that image – you can bring me down to earth, but you will never humble me – was repeated in 2010, when she gave her infamous "blood diamonds" testimony at the trial of former African warlord Charles Taylor, dressed in the queenly beehive and sharp lemon pastels of a southern belle, and described her time in the witness box as "a big inconvenience".
(19) These extensions were of 2 shapes: horseshoe and beehive.
(20) How could they not have known about the beehive of offending around them, the crown asked.
Busy
Definition:
(a.) Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant.
(a.) Constantly at work; diligent; active.
(a.) Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street.
(a.) Officious; meddling; foolish active.
(a.) Careful; anxious.
(v. t.) To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
(3) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(4) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(5) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(6) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(7) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(8) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(9) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(10) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(11) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(12) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(13) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
(14) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(15) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(16) "As part of this de-leveraging process, the group will also focus on eliminating any loss-making businesses."
(17) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
(18) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(19) The last time Vince Cable had a seat in the business department, it was during a high noon of industrial action and state interference in the economy.
(20) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.