(a.) Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
(2) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
(3) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
(4) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(5) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
(6) Allergic photocontact dermatitis developed in a patient to a commercial sunscreen preparation containing para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) in an alcohol base.
(7) When commercial chickens are infected in most sensitive one-day age, the virus titre does not exceed the value of 10(12) particles per 1 ml of plasma.
(8) Using a commercially available radioimmunoassay kit.
(9) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
(10) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
(11) The commercially available chromogenic p-nitroanilide substrates Pro-Phe-Arg-NH-Np (S2302 or chromozym PK), Glp-Pro-Arg-NH-Np (S2366), Ile-Glu-(piperidyl)-Gly-Arg-NH-Np (S2337), and Ile-Glu-Gly-Arg-NH-Np (S2222) were tested for their suitability as substrates in these assays.
(12) Twenty strains did not agglutinate with commercial serum O-Yersinia IMUNA; they were included in the group "Yersinia enterocolitica other biovars" and 60 strains were "Environmental Yersinia isolates".
(13) Albumin was highly purified from a commercially available rat albumin preparation (Fraction V) using disc electrophoresis.
(14) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
(15) The apparatus can be constructed from commercially available, inexpensive components.
(16) He also conceded that commercial operators could not solve the problem alone.
(17) The viral titer was 10(1.8) tissue culture infective doses (TCID) higher than that of commercial ERA vaccine.
(18) Urea was determined by means of diacetyl monoxim in the blood cells of 80 cockerels of the initial breed White Leghorn, commercial hybrid Primant.
(19) Second, at a time when efforts to improve the safety of commercial factor VIII have led to extraordinary increases in cost, factor VIII from plasma exchange donation promises to be relatively inexpensive.
(20) "Businesses will be ecstatic at today's decision because the Games will bring a colossal one-off commercial boost to the entire country," said the group's president, Michael Cassidy.
Postman
Definition:
(n.) A post or courier; a letter carrier.
(n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cultural critic Neil Postman once observed that you can't use smoke signals for philosophical discussions: the communication channel simply doesn't have the necessary bandwidth.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The shiny new Postman Pat and his helicopter.
(3) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
(4) "The Postman Always Rings Twice was my starting point," explained Packham.
(5) They were widely derided for being the "Postman Pats" of international terrorism, but the Welsh nationalists' prolific firebombing campaign of holiday cottages begun at the end of the 1970s caused havoc in the rural idyll of the Lleyn peninsula.
(6) The man who has been in charge of the FTSE 100 company since 2005 said his business hero was Margaret Thatcher and that his first job was as a Christmas postman in Essex at the age of 16.
(7) But not in a world where only the postman rings twice.
(8) The Detroit native and longtime postman looks down at the freshly cut grass of old Tiger Stadium for a moment, adding, “If [owners] don’t get their way, they threaten to leave.
(9) Arthur Stone, a 53-year-old postman from Burton upon Trent, is believed to be the first person in Britain to have been rescued by a housing association from having his home repossessed.
(10) Dr Panda’s Postman (£1.79) Another appearance for that moonlighting doctor, this time in Dr Panda’s Postman (or Mailman, as it’s known in the US).
(11) The few passers-by - I have seen no one except the postman for the past two days - stop to tell me that I live in "un petit coin de paradis" - a little bit of heaven.
(12) The assistant gives it to a messenger, who gives it to the postman.
(13) He says it was only a few years ago, when combining postman duties with playing for St Ives Town, that he expected his career to veer in a different direction.
(14) Family members, friends, colleagues, strangers, the postman – they all want to know when I will stop taking the pill and are unable to accept my answer.
(15) By the time the local postman rides, stunned, into frame on his bike, Robbie Ryan already has the shot.
(16) Three members of a farming family and their local postman contracted orf.
(17) Seventy years after the event, one of them would still cry at the memory of the postman bringing the death notice in a brown War Office envelope to her home in Edinburgh.
(18) But the day after Norris's funeral the Detroit Free Press carried just one story from Lansing - about a postman who has been on the same beat for 50 years.
(19) Her hair is left uncovered, except when the postman rings and she goes down to collect a parcel.
(20) Ron Goff, 67, a retired postman and perhaps the only other white resident of Vickie Place, had little sympathy for black motorists who cried racism when stopped and fined.