(n.) One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.
Example Sentences:
(1) His latest thinking includes introducing concierge desks to welcome shoppers and tapas bars in its wine departments.
(2) Similarly, Facebook’s recent experimentation with its AI concierge, M, could lead to Zuckerberg having a more natural-language conversation with his own Jarvis than he’d be able to create on his own.
(3) At the time of purchase Henley Concierge was registered to a cottage on Borodin's £120m country estate near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
(4) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
(5) Hong Kong Rent: HK$40,000 (£3,160) shared between two Deposit: Three months rent Property: Two-bedroom, 84 sq m apartment with pool, gym, sauna, playground, shuttle-bus, concierge, gardens, car park and clubhouse Tenancy length: Two years Adrian Warr Adrian Warr, 35, moved to Hong Kong for a new job in PR earlier this year.
(6) He is not the only high-flyer to choose the slightly dog-eared charms of The White House over a Four Seasons suite with a mini-bar and 24-hour concierge somewhere abroad.
(7) He did not answer questions about Henley Concierge, but said he was invited to the 2013 event, which took place at Old Billingsgate market, City of London.
(8) "As One Commercial Street is located on the edge of the City, we have built a product that appeals to this market of young professionals and families who want to live close to their place of work and enjoy the benefits of a full concierge service and hotel style lobby, which they pay a premium for through their service charge.
(9) "The difficulty is, and this is what the developers will say, is that the high charges, the concierge charges, the charges for all the services in the building, cannot always be met in a uniform way by all the tenants, and that's why they make this case for dual access."
(10) His father, a former soldier, took work where he could find it – in a biscuit factory, as a concierge; his mother worked as a cleaner at the local bus station.
(11) And so I set off to do a little detective work of my own, to discover whether Maigret’s Paris, full of squalid, storied hotels with communal bathrooms, apartment buildings with nosy concierges and, most importantly, characterful regional bistros and hyper-provincial bars, could still be found.
(12) The development, which arrived in London at around the same time as the Bank's governor, is made up of four smart, concierge-served blocks of mainly one- and two-bedroom flats.
(13) There is luxury marble tiling and plush sofas, and a sign on the door alerts residents to the fact that the concierge is available.
(14) A concierge will do "anything from booking their flights to putting cartons of milk in their fridges", as the sales manager Alexander von Albert sells it.
(15) Not everything in the magazine is available on the Net-A-Porter website, but the firm promises to help shoppers find a way to buy most items, with links to brands' own websites or a concierge service.
(16) 5by (Free) Styling itself as a “video concierge”, this app is the work of website StumbleUpon, promising to provide a stream of web videos based on your interests, current mood and the time of day.
(17) A concierge at the Plaza on Monday referred questions to a spokeswoman, who subsequently declined to comment.
(18) Each hut will be made up of two traditional-looking huts cleverly joined together, allowing sleeping room for between four and six people, with one bedroom, fitted kitchen, bathroom, sitting area and 24-hour concierge service.
(19) Even banana republics have cash: it just ends up in the hands of a very few people – ask the bank managers of Switzerland or the hotel concierges of Paris.
(20) In 2012, when Songza relaunched its service with its "Music Concierge" option for contextual playlists, it was pioneering, and its steady growth in the US – it had 5.5 million active users by the end of 2013 – was the spur for those bigger rivals to introduce similar features.
Greeter
Definition:
(n.) One who greets or salutes another.
(n.) One who weeps or mourns.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the defined conditions the yield is greeter than 80%.
(2) For details of Marseille greeters see marseilleprovencegreeters.com
(3) "Maybe we can be greeters at Walmart," Gilligan said.
(4) We thought we were meeting Eva, tourist "greeter" and founder of artists' network Les Femmes du Panier, at Marseille's town hall at 3.30pm.
(5) That is why it is so important for there to be "greeters" outside the courthouse: every smile of support in this brief instant is worth its weight in gold.
(6) All that is required of any foreign personage is to speed along the line of greeters, murmuring: "Jolly good show – carry on."
(7) There’s no reception desk, just an iPad-wielding greeter in a space decked out with baby grand piano, repurposed theatre seats, vintage spotlights and gramophone horn light fittings.
(8) Applicants for the benefit will be met by "meeters and greeters, buddies if you like, to ensure that people aren't overly anxious as they wait for their assessment", Duckworth says.
(9) 11.23am BST Our retail correspondent Zoe Wood flags up that M&S shareholders are not happy about having to drudge to the home of football ( they often flock the Royal Festival Hall on South Ban k) Zoe Wood (@zoewoodguardian) Oh dear M&S shareholders already grumpy about the hike up to Wembley with greeters getting an ear bashing.
(10) Outside once more, I dropped in on the nearby Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and met Downtown greeters with straw hats and purple polo shirts, in place to give tourists free advice.
(11) Disabled workers and those hurt on the job had an easier time getting modified duty like working as a greeter seated on a stool, advocates such as A Better Balance said.