(n.) The art, process, or business of binding books.
Example Sentences:
(1) Risk of lung cancer was increased significantly for electricians; sheetmetal workers and tinsmiths; bookbinders and related printing trade workers; cranemen, derrickmen, and hoistmen; moulders, heat treaters, annealers and other heated metal workers; and construction labourers.
(2) And a letterpress studio called Salt & Cedar , founded by a husband-and-wife team, offers "Book and Bread" dinners (gourmet food followed by a bookbinding session).
(3) Noah Bookbinder, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said: “The Office of Congressional Ethics is the only independent check on the House of Representatives.
(4) We are doing so now," said David Bookbinder, the chief adviser on climate change for the Sierra Club.
(5) The results suggest that a low exposure to paper dust in bookbinders with a time of employment more than 10 years might cause a slight lung function deterioration without a clinical relevance.
(6) "The president will have done as much as possible in the 10 months between his inauguration and Copenhagen," Bookbinder said.
(7) Noah Bookbinder, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said: “What he does not seem to realize, or does not want to admit, is that the conflicts arise from his ownership of the Trump Organization.
(8) Her father, a carpenter, died in an industrial accident on Leith docks when she was just two, leaving her mother, a bookbinder, to raise her and her brother alone.
(9) Designed by British bookbinders Sangorski & Sutcliffe the books are bound in crushed black Morocco leather and interlock with silver studs: a representation of the sado-masochism of some of the books' male characters.
Bookmaker
Definition:
(n.) One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.
(n.) A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite proving popular with bookmakers, Steve McClaren, the former Hull midfielder and Middlesbrough, England and Newcastle United manager, is understood not to be one of the five under consideration.
(2) It would mean that if the regulator found bookmakers' staff failing to intervene when punters lost too much money or not questioning why machines were played without a break, the shop could be closed down.
(3) The bookmaker said it considered the sector to be a "legitimate betting market" that proved one of its most popular non-sports gambling opportunities for the month of September.
(4) Outside the branch in Rochdale, sandwiched between a Nationwide and a bookmakers, Nora McDowell, a retired school cook whose son works at the bank's shiny new Manchester headquarters, said she was disappointed the bank would not be owned by the mutual any more.
(5) Bookmaker Paddy Power is currently offering odds of 16-1 on The Force Awakens passing Avatar’s total by June 2016.
(6) The bookmakers were proved right after Murray cantered to victory.
(7) The code, introduced in February by the Association of British Bookmakers, was meant to tighten betting controls and defuse criticism of FOBTs, on which punters can bet up to £300 a minute.
(8) Allan’s clients through Portland include the governments of Kazakhstan, Qatar and Rwanda, the arms manufacturer BAE Systems, the US pharmaceutical conglomerate Pfizer and the bookmaker William Hill.
(9) #MansionHouseSpeech #carney June 13, 2014 Updated at 12.32pm BST 11.57am BST Online bookmaker Paddy Power has slashed its odds on a UK interest rate rise this year.
(10) Others don’t feel safe walking down the high street of our town.” The polls and bookmakers suggest Reckless is the clear favourite to win on Thursday, despite Cameron promising to throw the kitchen sink at the seat.
(11) Djokovic is favoured by the bookmakers, but there's no doubting who the Melbourne crowd want to win.
(12) The Irish bookmaker called in London law firm Charles Russell to defend the campaign, threatening to seek an order at the high court to stop Locog-making billboard firm JCDecaux removing the ads.
(13) The Global boss is the son of Michael Tabor, who amassed a fortune from bookmaking, horsebreeding and property, and helped bankroll the £545m double purchase of GCap Media and Chrysalis Radio that created Global's broadcasting empire.
(14) Outside the confines of the cashier's booth the bookmaking industry might have seemed to many a very male preserve, but Coates was blind to that and the trade appealed to her mathematical mind.
(15) Excessive section 106 tariffs [which include deals on payments for affordable housing] just lead to no housing, no regeneration and no community benefits.” Tessa Jowell, the bookmakers’ favourite to become the next mayor of London, has demanded an immediate halt to the exemptions on the payments “until ministers can produce a comprehensive impact assessment that clearly demonstrates it won’t further damage London’s supply of affordable housing”.
(16) The financial help Coates has sanctioned is likely to mean Etherington is now paying back the club, rather than the bookmakers that were pursuing him.
(17) The fact that about half of the bets taken by the major bookmakers are placed online might have helped the rise of highbrow gambling.
(18) Paddy Power , a bookmaker, became Ireland's largest financial institution by value yesterday, overtaking the country's banks.
(19) The UK's largest bookmaker, William Hill , is to close 109 shops, blaming the government's surprise hike in betting taxes on high-speed, high-stakes gambling machines.
(20) Bookmakers have Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, as the likely winner, but a YouGov poll predicts Cameron will come out on top.