(n.) One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1945 Aneurin Bevan said: ‘We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, and now, we are the builders.’ And my God, how they built.
(2) This is all the more tragic in view of the fact that Correa sees himself as a builder of the nation state.
(3) You can actually create, be a builder and you can make things.” Wozniak’s faith in the power of education is no empty rhetoric.
(4) I’ve been a builder, doorman, worked in factories, I play rugby.
(5) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.
(6) The therapist must be prepared to act as both advocate and bridge-builder for the patient, with the patient's increasing participation.
(7) Sure, he has been doing the chat-show circuit in the US this past week to promote his latest sitcom, Bent (no relation to the Nazi homosexual persecution play – it's an Amanda Peet vehicle in which she may or may not go to bed with her builder).
(8) He said there were "jobs for doctors, nurses, architects, builders, even for street cleaners in the Islamic State".
(9) Better days....." silkpurse – Neville Brothers Yellow Moon: "Spent most of one summer as a builder listening to the Neville Brothers "Yellow Moon".
(10) Hold the champagne back for now - from a nation of bankers to a nation of builders?
(11) Today was the first part of the discussion and a relationship builder between Mr Trump and President Peña Nieto.
(12) But again, many in the industry are concerned the recovery could be snuffed out, with the National Federation of Builders pointing to threats to the housbuilding as mortgage lending stagnates.
(13) Shimon Peres, president of Israel, praised Mandela as "a builder of bridges of peace and dialogue who paid a heavy personal price for his struggle in the years he spent in prison and fighting for his people".
(14) The homes will be funded by lifting obligations on house builders to also provide affordable homes or build new infrastructure, such as roads or health services.
(15) The trio of Glaswegian builders buying me drinks comprised half the audience.
(16) Limited research information is available on the training programs and dietary practices of competitive male and female body builders.
(17) Although 5.5% of a property's value has been suggested by some sources, with another 3.5% contributed by builders and 5% by the borrower, this would mean the lender would still be liable for 86% of the value.
(18) Anglo Irish Bank, which was the preferred lender for property speculators and builders, epitomised the rise and ignominious fall of the Celtic Tiger economy.
(19) We need our Stephen Hawkings, but we also need Bob the Builder, firefighter Sally, Ned the nurse, soldier Salim and postal worker Patu.
(20) For developers and their dependent ecosystem of estate agents, architects, lawyers and builders, it has been a one-way super-bet.” About £15bn of investment is pouring into the Nine Elms area, which is directly across the river from super-swanky Chelsea but was until recently wasteland, sheds and warehouses.
Guilder
Definition:
(n.) A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition the costs per gained woman-year are about 5,000 guilders (1 US $ = 3.60 guilders).
(2) The average cow showing clinical symptoms of paratuberculosis, which was disposed of, caused a total loss of 2,250 guilders, whereas the average cow with a non-clinical form of Johne's disease was estimated to cause a loss of 1,800 guilders.
(3) Over 250,000 jobs, roughly 9,600 million guilders' worth of exports in 1977 and roughly 11,000 million guilders' worth of annual sales to home consumers.
(4) For simvastatin, cost-effectiveness ratios range from 50,000 to 110,000 guilders per year of life saved among this group of men.
(5) The losses at slaughter from inflammation of the tail in the Netherlands are estimated at 3-4 million guilders per annum.
(6) The economic loss resulting from the skinning and trimming of pig carcases is estimated at from 2.5 to 3 million Netherlands guilders per annum.
(7) Riding a white bike was no longer free of charge; it cost one guilder per trip and payment was made with a chip card developed by Postbank, a Dutch bank.
(8) However, if the greying of the patient population is taken into account (the elderly on average stay long in hospital), together with the devaluation of the guilder, a clear rise of the mean costs per hospitalization is no longer demonstrable.
(9) It is calculated that the public costs of 'care' will increase with 1.4 billion guilders in the next four years due to the aging of the population.
(10) The financial profit of a completely cured instead of an ultimately fatal cancer can be roughly estimated at 55,000 guilders.
(11) We classified estimated direct costs of illness (39.8 thousand million guilders) by type of care, sex, age and 48 diagnostic categories for 1988.
(12) A new study of Keynes’s attempts to make money out of movements in the pound against five major currencies of his day – the dollar, French franc, German mark, Italian lire and Dutch guilder – comes to a stark conclusion.