(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.
Janitor
Definition:
(n.) A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) When occupations were examined individually, motor vehicle operators, truck drivers, vehicle mechanics, other mechanics, and janitors were among those most likely to be diagnosed with high-grade or late-stage tumors.
(2) Raymond Bravo, 36, from San Pablo, California, who earned $10.25 an hour as a janitor for a Walmart's Richmond Hilltop Mall store in California, working 30 hours a week, said he was fired from his job after taking part in the strikes and demonstrations in June.
(3) He was magnificent as the mouldy old white-haired janitor, master of the mop and bucket, supervising an invisible gathering to hear the very last message for humanity.
(4) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … Penry, the mild mannered janitor .
(5) Men employed as janitors and in other building service occupations showed increased relative risk for aggressive tumors (OR = 7.0, CI = 2.5-19.6).
(6) In domestic politics, Gingrich has advocated getting rid of child labour laws so that poor children can work as janitors in their schools.
(7) He plays the part of Ben, a young janitor from El Salvador who is committed to the union.
(8) The role of selective transfer of sick individuals (into, say janitoring or trucking) warrants further investigation.
(9) Another of the three, Rene Gagnon, died of a heart attack at 54, frustrated that his faded celebrity translated ultimately into no more than work as a janitor.
(10) Soon afterwards Laverty was listening to LA's left-wing radio station, KPFK, and heard that an organisation called Justice for Janitors, which represents the people who hoover the corporate carpet and scrub its toilet bowl, was holding a meeting.
(11) It’s harder when things get thrown at your family but that’s become the reality of 21st-century politics.” She recalls her own journey, from janitor’s daughter to Harvard academic to senator, thanks to opportunities she believes were lost to today’s children when Washington decided it was more important to give tax breaks to billionaires and giant corporations.
(12) Not long after the shoot finished, the janitors were on the streets of LA for real, striking and campaigning for a wage increase.
(13) Loach had hoped to release Bread and Roses at the height of the janitors' dispute last year but the release date was set.
(14) Beatty’s family has lived that history: her mother was born outside Birmingham, Alabama, and her father in New Orleans; they ultimately met in New York, where he was working as a janitor.
(15) Elevated maternal age-adjusted relative risks of Down syndrome were found for fathers employed as janitors (odds ratio [OR] = 3.26; 95% confidence interval [C.I.]
(16) I want to be a janitor in the new casino,” she said, “or maybe hand out sodas.” Elizabeth Amidon was one of a few people in line who did know exactly what she wanted to do.
(17) They also embody income inequality, earning significantly higher salaries than the people who share their workplaces as shuttle drivers, security guards, and janitors.
(18) It also might hold memories for Barack Obama and Robert Redford: the president visited the bar in 2012 and ordered a pizza, now designated the Potus pie; the actor pushed a mop as a Sink janitor in his early years.
(19) In addition to standard college newspaper fare – an essay about town-gown relations in which Miller details the “ condescension ” inherent in giving a janitor a birthday card – Miller’s 25 columns, written between September 2005 and April 2007, frequently touch on hot-button issues.
(20) Obama talked of giving "a fair shot" to black janitors, white steelworkers, immigrant dishwashers and Native American veterans.