(n.) A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink.
(n.) The sutler's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers.
Example Sentences:
(1) 93% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 84%) felt that involuntary smoking should be restricted in the workplace and 99% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 97%) felt that it should be restricted in the canteens.
(2) I will not be alone in watching closely to see what difference – if any – it makes to have a (highly competent) woman at the helm of an organisation which remains, with its notorious “canteen culture”, still a boys’ club in so many ways.
(3) When he came to the canteen at the Old Vic, people were desperately scanning their brains to think of something intellectual to talk to him about.
(4) Across town in Le Central restaurant, nicknamed Hollande's canteen, the atmosphere is jovial.
(5) From the period of October 1987 to January 1988, 9 samples were taken from 16 workers in company canteens situated in the Sienna area.
(6) But, desperate to court Le Pen's voters, he later seized on it, stressing in rousing speeches at campaign rallies that halal meat options should not be available in state school canteens.
(7) A quarter of these epidemics developed in works canteens and half the affected subjects were ill.
(8) The Ritz hotel in Barcelona is renamed Hotel Gastronómico No 1 and serves as a workers’ canteen.
(9) Each movie group – Gone Girl, The Imitation Game, Selma, etc – sits defensively together, sort of like high-school cliques in the canteen of an 80s teen movie, and those proud, defiant smiles they managed to maintain for TV have long since wobbled away a bit.
(10) The inspection showed that the hygienic condition of 14 canteens (40%) was unsatisfactory.
(11) The present paper deals with a method that permits to evaluate the nutritional structure of all-day canteen feeding by means of a computer program based on the dishes actually delivered by the canteen.
(12) Fastforward to 2005, and the Gate Gourmet workforce – again, mostly female and Asian – were dismissed after assembling in the canteen to question the company's employment policies and then refusing to go back to work.
(13) During the rebellion by Tory MPs on the European Union bill last week, Lib Dem ministers sat eating a canteen supper while they waited for the vote.
(14) I think Sanders will win Iowa and New Hampshire.” Clinton will kickstart what she hopes is her year of destiny (and which will also include a second grandchild) at a school canteen in Concord, New Hampshire, on Sunday, followed by visits to Iowa – where the first Democratic caucus is held next month – and Las Vegas.
(15) But the estates he inherited from his father in 1979 when he became the 6th Duke of Westminster certainly furnished the equivalent of many canteens of silverware.
(16) The number of pupils receiving help with food and similar issues had increased threefold in a year, Goddard said, with increasing numbers staying almost until the school canteen closed at 8.30pm to stay warm or eat.
(17) "The government has to be much more nanny state in terms of policing the food industry, taxing snack food, taxing fizzy drinks, banning fizzy drinks, banning sugary foods, and not just in school dinners but also in work canteens and hospital food.
(18) The Ofsted report says that boys and girls eat lunch in separate sittings, although it puts this down to the small size of the canteen.
(19) In one incident, students poured water on the twins in the canteen.
(20) I was born and raised here, and until recently I had never heard of a problem with different school meal options for Muslim and Jewish children who don’t eat pork.” Back in Chilly-Mazarin, Anouar Briki, who works in construction and was born in Nice, is pondering what to tell his two daughters, aged six and nine, about how to deal with the end of pork-free meals in the canteen.
Pantry
Definition:
(n.) An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Expect it to be talk of floor tonight during 6pm hr vote series October 14, 2013 6.15pm BST Obama: 'there has been some progress' Speaking to reporters at a Washington food pantry, where hailed volunteer work by furloughed federal workers, President Obama said there had been "progress" in the budget talks.
(2) But Miranda Kaunang of GMFS admits more suppliers are needed: “There’s an art to managing a pantry in terms of supplies,” she says.
(3) North said: “When we believe we have got the offer right, and the economics, we will roll it out internationally.” The expansion of Pantry comes on the back of a productive year for Amazon in the UK.
(4) If they end up going to the pantry for the next 10 years, that’s fine.
(5) Over two hours before the Brinnington Local Pantry opens, Christine arrives to take her seat at the head of the queue.
(6) It’s not a normal shop, but it is close to a normal shop.” Cooper is working with Stockport Homes on plans to develop the pantry model across Greater Manchester.
(7) He is a big fan of the Portland Timbers MLS club, volunteers at his church and helps run a food pantry for low-income children.
(8) Belle Gibson said she was inspired to launch The Whole Pantry recipe app in 2013 after being diagnosed with a terminal, malignant brain cancer in 2009 and told she had months to live.
(9) We wanted something that provided dignity and choice.” So the pantry was born.
(10) Brinnington Pantry tops this up with free fruit and vegetables financed from the club’s subscription revenue.
(11) She comes to the food pantry three times a month and shares what she has with her 85-year-old neighbour.
(12) In Virginia, Charles Meng, the executive director of the Arlington Food Assistance Center (Afac), told the Guardian this will increase the burden on families who benefit from his pantry, which serves 1,500 families each week.
(13) Fresh analysis of a collection of 19th-century watercolours by the New Zealand landscape artist JR Smythe, shows that in one portrait, “Summer Pantry” dated 1888, a partially eaten Lamington cake is clearly visible on the counter of a cottage overlooking Wellington Harbour.
(14) I got a bit restless and had a quick snoop in his pantry, where he had little more than lots of bottled water and a few packets of oatcakes.
(15) Herman Carnie: We provide food through a network of 650 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.
(16) The Whole Pantry forecasted income in October 2014, which was not fulfilled, creating cashflow issues and unforeseen delays on finalising three discussed charitable donations,” the statement said.
(17) 1.34pm BST Wolmarans obtained another door from Pistorius' property – a pantry door similar in style, material and dimensions to the toilet door – on which to conduct tests.
(18) The following variables were positively related to not eating: ethnicity, location, receipt of Medicaid, living alone, health problems, mobility, age less than 80 years, cancer, nausea, difficulty swallowing, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and receipt of food from a food pantry.
(19) Stockport Homes has four pantries, and GMFS supplies about 15 pantries in Greater Manchester.
(20) These used to be referred to as 'emergency food pantries', but now it's like people are having an emergency every day.