(n.) The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
(n.) The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
(n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
(n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
(n.) Direction; quarter.
(n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
(v. t.) To drive into a corner.
(v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
(v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
(3) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
(4) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
(5) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
(6) The resulting corner is dealt with easily by Real, who scoot upfield through Di Maria.
(7) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
(8) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
(9) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(10) Jordanian officials are aware of possible retaliation from an increasingly cornered Damascus, which this week accused Amman of "playing with fire" by opening its border to a military push.
(11) Miller is wide wide wide wide open in the corner of the endzone.
(12) 8.22pm BST 42 mins Now it's a US corner and a chance to exploit the German zonal marking.
(13) But I say to the honourable gentleman we won’t get Britain building unless we keep our economy going.” Later, Marie called in to radio station LBC radio to say that the new Labour leader needed to “change the way he does things, mix things up each week and really not let the Conservatives know which side it’s coming from – firing on all corners but doing it in a calm and collected way”.
(14) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
(15) Sigurdsson’s deep corner kick was headed back across goal by Borja and Fer, via a slight touch from Van der Hoorn, stabbed over the line.
(16) The MRTF was low pass in character having a corner frequency of 100-120 Hz.
(17) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(18) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(19) That he was able to keep his secret treasures here, not in some remote corner of the globe but in the centre of the city that gave birth to the National Socialist movement, is both extraordinary and not short of a certain dark irony.
(20) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
Monopoly
Definition:
(n.) The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product.
(n.) Exclusive possession; as, a monopoly of land.
(n.) The commodity or other material thing to which the monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in France.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(2) In June 2012 we got our first elected president, and, in his first year in office, the state's monopoly on violence was broken.
(3) The data on tobacco consumption, from 1900 to 1985, was obtained from official publication of the Administration of the State Monopolies or from unpublished material kindly provided by the same Administration.
(4) As psychiatry belongs to the system, it received the monopoly of access to the symbolic and mental dimension which is included in the disorders.
(5) • The Catholic church's near monopoly of influence in education means that the ultimate power in each school is the local Catholic bishop.
(6) And they say the Trans-Pacific deal will do big favours for pharmaceutical companies and other US corporations, for instance, by lengthening copyright protections and the monopoly period for newly developed drugs.
(7) As his recent study on the retailer points out, when it comes to digital distribution of entertainment, Amazon is very far from being a monopoly.
(8) "I don't ... believe that the organisation ever seeks to behave in anything but the most socially responsible way – but monopolies will always act in their own best interests, and those interests may not coincide with those of the rest of us.
(9) The chief executive of Europe's largest newspaper publisher has accused Google of abusing a monopoly position in the digital economy to discriminate against competitors and build up a "superstate".
(10) No longer monopolies or oligopolies, the barrier to entry to their kingdom and business reduced to an inch, they simply cannot maintain their old scale, the size and margins that the City demanded.
(11) "We had a second open access company, Wrexham and Shropshire, and that ran a popular service which was hampered by monopoly rights that Virgin have enjoyed.
(12) Despite a near monopoly in many towns, HMV stores were seeing sales slump year after year, even at paper-thin margins.
(13) Fortune Magazine predicted that “ the apparent M-Pesa monopoly may be set to crumble ”, indicating that the new licensing regime could open up the market long dominated by Safaricom.
(14) And it’s partly about tailoring use of data, so I can choose what apps and systems I share my information with, rather than giving one firm a monopoly over where my vital statistics are sent and analysed.
(15) The government doesn’t have a monopoly on patriotism, Shorten says.
(16) Despite the recent announcement of an EU antitrust case against Google , which is accused of unfairly using its monopoly in search to boost its online shopping product, the paper says that competition law isn’t the right way to enforce fairness, since the cases are “lengthy and expensive”.
(17) 3.47pm BST Greece to sell gambling stake; maybe lease islands The Greek privatisation office has announced that it will start the process of selling its 29% stake in OPAP , the state gambling monopoly.
(18) David Cameron will herald new moves to open up public services to private providers when he hails the role of “insurgent companies” and speaks of the benefit of “breaking state monopolies”.
(19) "Telecoms is a very good example: for a long time, we had a government monopoly, which stifled innovation, and the service was poor.
(20) It will promote an environment that is consistent with effective competition; it will challenge abusive monopoly behaviour, take steps to promote competition where customers are being disadvantaged (for instance, in retail banking) and promote long-term investment rather than the casino capitalism that has disadvantaged the UK’s economy and social cohesion.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the BBC’s Newsnight programme Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, forgets the name of the Labour’s small businesses leader, Bill Thomas.