(n.) One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.
(n.) A claqueur. See Claqueur.
Example Sentences:
(1) First, though, is the inevitable "career highlights" montage: Mark riverdancing in socks at the Super Bowl; Mark motioning frantically to his genitals at Crufts; Mark clopping jubilantly across the churned sod of Ascot, clackers swinging like pork hammocks in a gale.
Lacker
Definition:
(n.) One who lacks or is in want.
(n. & v.) See Lacquer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lacker and George are among the Fed policymakers who most urge an active fight against future high inflation.
(2) It mainly depends of lacker cracks initial location if macular quite wrong, if intramacular, quite right.
(3) Lacker, who is not a voting member of the Fed’s policy-setting committee this year but participates in its discussions, said recent strong job growth suggested the US economy was still on a solid growth path.
(4) Ongoing strength in the US job market could give the Federal Reserve justification for multiple interest rate increases this year, Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker said on Wednesday.
(5) 5.57pm BST Europe's financial strains are likely to abate next year, according to US Federal Reserve member Jeffrey Lacker.
(6) This perspective would bolster the case for raising the federal funds rate target,” Lacker said.
(7) The statement was approved on a 9-1 vote, with Atlanta Fed president Jeffrey M Lacker dissenting for the second straight meeting.
(8) These lacker cracks happen early in the myopia degeneration evolution in young patients.
(9) Lacker said one reason to believe rates should rise is that estimates of the economy’s so-called natural real rate of interest, the rate when economists think there will be normal economic growth and stable inflation, are at or just above zero.
(10) Lacker has proposed a simple mathematical model of follicle development that can account for the regulation of ovulation number.
(11) Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker – who is not a voting member of the Fed’s policy-setting committee – said last month that recent job growth would justify multiple rate hikes this year.
(12) Federal Reserve meeting minutes show uncertainty about global economy Read more “I still think prospects for rate increases this year is the logical” view, Lacker said in a presentation to a business school in Baltimore, adding that economic data did not indicate that a recession was imminent in the United States.
(13) Lacker had pushed for the Fed to begin raising rates by moving the federal funds rate up by a quarter-point.
(14) A theory of follicle selection (Lacker, 1981) is tested in the primate by simulating the effects of estradiol administration at different times, strengths, and durations during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle (Clark et al., 1981; Zeleznik, 1981; Dierschke et al., 1985).
(15) Voting against the action was Jeffrey Lacker, who opposed additional asset purchases and preferred to omit the description of the time period over which exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate are likely to be warranted.
(16) The statement said Lacker doesn't "anticipate that economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate through late 2014".
(17) However, the vote was not unanimous – as it normally is – with Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Fed’s Atlanta regional bank, casting a vote for an increase.
(18) That is the same proportion as in September with Jeffrey Lacker, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, being the only member to push for a 25 basis points increase.
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(20) Both Lacker and Fisher are considered Fed hawks and if they say something supportive of a December taper, it could trigger dollar buying in the afternoon session.