What's the difference between coucher and voucher?
Coucher
Definition:
(n.) One who couches.
(n.) One who couches paper.
(n.) A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.
(n.) The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a saying in France: l’information s’arrête à la porte de la chambre à coucher – information stops at the bedroom door.
(2) Iain Coucher, Network Rail chief executive, said: "Passengers care most about trains being on time and we have delivered another record year with punctuality surpassing 91%.
(3) Coucher added that the company could therefore charge lower track access charges to train operators, maintaining downward pressure on fares.
(4) In 2009 Network Rail's chief executive, Iain Coucher, waived his £300,000 annual bonus but three colleagues received a combined windfall of nearly £800,000.
(5) He added: "Punctuality is down to the private train operators who actually run the trains and it should not be used by Mr Coucher to try and prop up a flawed bonus system which is wholly unacceptable for running what is a state monopoly."
Voucher
Definition:
(n.) One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.
(n.) A book, paper, or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm and establish facts of any kind; also, any acquittance or receipt showing the payment of a debt; as, the merchant's books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts; notes, bonds, receipts, and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.
(n.) The act of calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of action for the recovery of lands.
(n.) The tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title. In common recoveries, there may be a single voucher or double vouchers.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(2) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
(3) She told me the only time the vouchers had been sent was at the original order and she did not know why they had not been received.
(4) Local authorities were tasked to ensure adequate numbers of affordable childcare places, which was swiftly followed by statutory paternity leave, maternity pay, childcare vouchers and – perhaps most crucially of all – wider social acceptance of the link between childcare and employment.
(5) From April working mothers and fathers can receive help through the child care tax credit worth up to £240 a week or, with the support of their employers, through the employers child care voucher.
(6) Passengers who have paid but choose not to travel due to this service disruption can receive a refund or a voucher for future travel,” the operator said.
(7) The so-called “Section 8” voucher scheme, which pays two thirds of the rent in private apartments for qualifying low-income residents, was frozen in 2010, cutting off hope for new applicants and those waiting for housing, after federal funding was pulled and the city could not close the budget gap.
(8) The Trussell Trust has provided through its network of food banks emergency assistance for over 500,000 people since 2013 who are in financial crisis, who are going hungry who have been referred by more than 23,000 different professionals holding vouchers.
(9) Outlining his transport manifesto, the Labour candidate launched a "London Travel Voucher" which promises "£1,000 off London Tube, bus and Overground" and which he said will only be valid if he is elected as London mayor.
(10) His comments came as voucher experts said consumers have probably lost at least £100m in now worthless HMV vouchers.
(11) One voter chosen at random will receive £150 worth of gift vouchers for Nigel’s Eco Store.
(12) This is different from the current voucher scheme where help can be claimed even if only one of two parents is employed.
(13) In Nassau County, New York, in 1989 a voucher process was created to allow service users to develop individualized support networks by purchasing services directly and by pooling funds to start new services.
(14) No relation to Ann Widdecombe 1 Advent calendar Receiving it on Christmas Day makes me 100% confident I won't be facing the disappointment of finishing it too early 2 Nog I don't like eggs but I love a bit of eggnog, think how good nog would be without the eggs holding it back 3 WH Smith's voucher Keep in my wallet for guilt free hours of magazine browsing all year round 4 Quality Street Always have a present you can instantly re-wrap and give to someone else 5 Bath bomb Take cover!
(15) They helped pass Michigan’s first charter school law , pushed a failed Michigan school voucher referendum , helped get hundreds of pro-voucher and charter candidates for public office elected, proliferated charters , weakened teachers unions by advocating for right-to-work legislation in Michigan and warded off a proposed Detroit charter oversight commission in a state where 80% are run for profit with minimal accountability.
(16) Where families were in need, vouchers had been made available to help parents buy necessary uniform, with additional assistance for shoes.
(17) For each species listed, the family, the botanical name, the voucher specimen number, the vernacular name, the pharmacological and therapeutical properties are given.
(18) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
(19) But that was still well ahead of expectations and Lewis said that during the previous year Tesco had been issuing a lot of discount vouchers.
(20) Then, having stopped their benefits so they can't buy food, the same agency gives claimants a food bank voucher.