What's the difference between busby and busy?

Busby


Definition:

  • (n.) A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Matt Busby used to say to us that if we were six points off the lead at Christmas we would win the league.
  • (2) Those who fail when managing United (or City) perhaps do so because, unlike Ferguson – and before him Matt Busby – they lack a visceral conceptual understanding that Manchester United is not only about football and it is not really of Manchester.
  • (3) Green Audit is an environmental consultancy and research organisation founded by Busby.
  • (4) The tests are provided by Busby Laboratories and promoted through a body called the Christopher Busby Foundation for the Children of Fukushima (CBFCF).
  • (5) This game fell the day after the 100th anniversary of Sir Matt Busby's birth, which inspired a mosaic tribute at the United end of the ground.
  • (6) British football can be proud of the United team who gave their all to give Matt Busby the cup he cherishes above all else,” the newspaper proclaimed.
  • (7) Though a controversial figure, Busby has been championed by the anti-nuclear movement and some environmentalists.
  • (8) In the 60s, Sir Matt Busby ran Manchester United with a laissez-faire policy, which allowed geniuses such as George Best to flourish.
  • (9) Throughout their most notable periods of success under both Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson, United generally played with great width on both flanks, and based their play around quick diagonal passes out wide and plenty of crosses.
  • (10) When asked what his involvement with the foundation is, Busby said: "It's got nothing to do with me.
  • (11) The names Matt Busby, Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson and Brian Clough were put to the Italian in the context that he may soon be joining their illustrious company, but there has never been a European Cup-winning interim first-team coach.
  • (12) The same values characterised the mining towns and villages that produced Jock Stein, Bill Shankly and Sir Matt Busby.
  • (13) Another coeliac, Katherine Busby, 35, from York, was diagnosed 12 years ago.
  • (14) The Sisterhood began eleven years ago under the leadership of Ms. Daphne Busby.
  • (15) And if Busby indulged Best to a fault, Ferguson turned a blind eye to the excesses of his own talisman, Eric Cantona.
  • (16) In 2001 Ferguson visited Gérard Houllier in hospital after the Frenchman underwent heart surgery and it wasn’t unknown for the former Liverpool player Matt Busby to share a team coach with his fellow manager Bill Shankly after the pair formed a mutual Scottish admiration society in the sixties.
  • (17) Gerald Busby, a 72-year-old composer, has lived at the Chelsea since 1977.
  • (18) On a giant banner outside the ground, the figures of five triumphant United players overlooked the statue of another legendary Old Trafford manager, Sir Matt Busby.
  • (19) "CCS will need 50% more coal for the same generation and it will add 70% to the costs," said independent energy analyst John Busby.
  • (20) 27 March 1994 Patrick Barclay looks at the strengths and weaknesses of Alex Ferguson's managerial style and says Manchester United's governor needs to acquire some of the late Sir Matt Busby's diplomacy A third of last season had passed, with United no higher than fifth because they still scored at too modest a rate, when Ferguson was tipped off by a French friend that Eric Cantona wanted to leave Leeds.

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.

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