What's the difference between courier and courser?

Courier


Definition:

  • (n.) A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business.
  • (n.) An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In fact, Amazon Logistics has no drivers and contracts out deliveries to many small- and medium-sized couriers across the country.
  • (2) Memo to bosses: expect zero loyalty from your zero-hours workers | Barbara Ellen Read more Field asked them to detail the costs couriers are expected to meet themselves, such as uniform and fuel, as well as data on their average hourly rate and information about what efforts the companies go to to ensure owner-drivers are earning the “ national living wage ”.
  • (3) Similarly, in autumn 2009 he personally killed a project devised by Xbox innovator J Allard – a book-like tablet called Courier which could have arrived at the same time the next year as Apple's iPad.
  • (4) Some couriers, too, are fighting back, staging public protests and preparing legal challenges in employment tribunals over whether their self-employed status – which denies them the right to the minimum wage and holiday pay – is, in fact, bogus.
  • (5) The confusion comes as the Health and Safety Executive considers concerns raised by Frank Field MP, the chair of the work and pensions select committee, that fatigued couriers working seven days a week could pose a road safety risk .
  • (6) The extensive surveillance, phone records and the evidence of the couriers made their denials unbelievable.
  • (7) They rightly perceive that there is a better chance that retailers can get it to them there.” James Daunt, chief executive of the bookstore chain Waterstones , said its online deliveries were being delayed by “one or two days” as a result of problems at its courier service, Yodel, which has been overwhelmed with demand from the retailers it serves.
  • (8) News Limited is the Australian arm of the global company News Corporation and publishes more than 140 newspaper titles across the country including the major tabloid titles down the east coast, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald-Sun and the Courier-Mail as well as the national broadsheet the Australian.
  • (9) Each region of Crimea was given a “courier region” in Russia, which sent specialists over to train the locals.
  • (10) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
  • (11) Ever since I first strapped a radio to my bag, people have been warning me that the cycle courier is an endangered species.
  • (12) Now anti-doping authorities demand that competitors urinate into two testing bottles in front of a control officer, who then applies tamper-proof seals to the containers, which are individually labelled and sent by courier to the laboratory.
  • (13) Hermes, the parcel delivery giant which uses 10,500 self-employed couriers, is currently facing an HM Revenue and Customs investigation following multiple allegations from couriers that they should be classed as workers or employees rather than contractors.
  • (14) The data includes emails sent as recently as last month by a courier on behalf of the al-Qaida leader.
  • (15) He referenced some of those missed payments in a 2003 article with local newspaper the Post and Courier.
  • (16) Some takeaway delivery couriers say they are being paid as little as £1.74 an hour, far below the national minimum wage.
  • (17) Hermes, the courier group that delivers parcels for John Lewis and Next, has told some drivers it is “mandatory” to work the next two Sundays during the Black Friday rush.
  • (18) We believe two were the couriers and the third was Bin Laden's adult son.
  • (19) In the digital age of online ordering and fast courier delivery, the drone seems an obvious advance.
  • (20) However, Warne’s letter makes clear that the company, which is facing several legal challenges over the status of its couriers , still considers its riders self-employed contractors.

Courser


Definition:

  • (n.) One who courses or hunts.
  • (n.) A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
  • (n.) A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Older siblings are frequently a source of drugs and use substances with their young siblings, though peers remain the primary source and the most frequent coursers.
  • (2) Tea Party leaders Todd Courser, who resigned in September while facing expulsion, and Cindy Gamrat, who was expelled, are seeking the Republican nominations in special primary elections, which come less than two months after their 11 September ouster.
  • (3) There are 11 in Courser’s district in Michigan’s Thumb region and eight for Gamrat’s seat in the south-western part of the state.

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