(n.) One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(2) Burham's claim to be the continuity candidate, coupled with his past reputation as a Blairite, suggests a centrist leadership that would stay on course in terms of private sector involvement in public services, a crackdown on benefit claimants and a tougher stance on criminals.
(3) job losses In areas where the local economy was strong, there were much lower incapacity claimant rates.
(4) In the email King sets out ways jobcentre staff can catch out claimants, saying: "You should consider every doubt – if you are unsure then please conference with me."
(5) Hot on the heels of the secret justice green paper – which seeks to shut claimants out of their own cases against the state to defend the "public interest" – comes a major expansion of powers to monitor the phone calls, emails and website visits of every person in the UK .
(6) Maybe the claimants were politicians who took a strict stance on moral issues, or people who had misleadingly used their family image to seek office or commercial gain?
(7) Each new PIP claim - worth between £21 and £134 a week to disabled claimants - costs an average £182 to administer, compared to £49 under the disability living allowance, said the report.
(8) I also think claimants rights should be strengthened by a contract that specifies what needs to be in place before they can successfully look for work: housing, food, transport, IT, support etc and the first step addressing these issues with no sanctions until it is proved to be in place.
(9) The universal credit would also track claimants' income monthly rather than yearly, so reducing the risk of over- or underpayment.
(10) It is calling on the government to move from using a standard interest rate to using individual claimants' own mortgage interest rates.
(11) Most vacancies are now advertised over the internet and claimants are encouraged to apply online to help them prepare for the world of work.” The disclosure of the revenue generated by BT came after the Observer revealed that 85% of benefit fraud allegations made by the public to a telephone hotline or online over the last five years were false.
(12) Increasing pressures on social care budgets meant DLA was often the only financial support they got, said Esther Foreman, the charity's campaigns and policy manager, and short-term cost savings could have long-term implications for claimants, their families and carers.
(13) It also indicates that the claimant count unemployed figure is being reduced by people either being unable to claim benefits or choosing not to.
(14) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
(15) Our working arrangements are also changing, with the introduction of the ”Unipod”” system .Under this arrangement, all Jobcentre staff will be expected to deliver services to all customers, effectively ending specialist support for disabled claimants, lone parents and those claiming Employment and Support Allowance.
(16) The claimants subsequently received 10% of their intended bonuses.
(17) But Miller, in continuing to urge publishers to be "recognised" by the charter did refer to the "incentives", meaning a protection from the payment of legal costs for libel claimants (even if unsuccessful) and the imposition of exemplary damages (which would be very doubtful anyway).
(18) "The claimants were entirely innocent of any misconduct," Westgate said.
(19) No surprise they decided to go slow this week – and even less surprising that existing claimants have been parked until after the election.
(20) The introduction of a lie detector test for benefit claimants is the most striking shift to a more populist programme, similar to Tony Blair's respect agenda.
Money
Definition:
(n.) A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.
(n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.
(n.) In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
(v. t.) To supply with money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(2) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
(3) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(4) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(5) 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.
(6) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
(7) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(8) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
(9) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(10) It just means there won't be any money when another child is in need.
(11) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(12) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(13) For me, it would be to protect the young and vulnerable, to reduce crime, to improve health, to promote security and development, to provide good value for money and to protect.
(14) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
(15) "I have tried to borrow the money, but it was simply impossible."
(16) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(17) The money will initially be sought from governments.
(18) They can go into the money markets: a highly male-dominated industry.
(19) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(20) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.