What's the difference between courier and courtier?
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.
Courtier
Definition:
(n.) One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.
(n.) One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the bad memories - the bloody purges, the violent anarchy of the Cultural Revolution - are officially classified as "mistakes", committed when Mao was old and no longer in control of his evil courtiers.
(2) Maybe Geithner, the veteran courtier, never made an effort to get to know the public.
(3) Among the most senior honours, the dominance of Sir Humphreys and courtiers is striking.
(4) In the published extracts she depicts Buckingham Palace and Clarence House as being at war, with feuding courtiers, dejected aides and dark constitutional menace should Charles III ascend the throne.
(5) The pits are filled with figurines of courtiers and animals, and you can see the fossilised remains of wooden chariots.
(6) Given the guile of those courtiers, that's quite a task: he'll need all the support he can get.
(7) Donald Trump's courtiers bring chaotic and capricious style to White House Read more Patrick Leahy, ranking Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, said Trump “seems intent on precipitating a constitutional crisis”.
(8) Washington power-brokers and their media courtiers do not discuss him, and he does not make frequent (or any) appearances on US cable news outlets, but outside of those narrow and insular corridors - meaning around the world - few if any political thinkers are as well-known, influential or admired (to its credit, the Guardian, like some US liberal outlets , does periodically publish Chomsky's essays ).
(9) That has left the 33-year-old at the mercy of a range of courtiers.
(10) But more likely, the Times has needed encouragement to get to this precipice – Wendi or her courtiers (shades of Princess Diana) are fanning the flames.
(11) His curriculum vitae is depressingly like that of most Westminster courtiers - some dabbling in research, a bit of media PR, and time as a Whitehall aide de camp.
(12) The duke only resumed public engagements at the World Economic Forum in Davos in late January where he was pursued by reporters and used a short speech “to reiterate and to reaffirm” the existing emphatic Buckingham Palace denials of what courtiers described as “lurid and deeply personal” claims.
(13) Francis suggested that some members of the Vatican's large bureaucracy, which was last year plunged into crisis during the "Vatileaks" scandal, were indeed courtiers; but the main problem with the curia was its self-interested nature.
(14) "He is not just some leader with lots of money to throw at a football club," a senior courtier said.
(15) Like Blatter, Platini is surrounded by courtiers who tell him what he wants to hear.
(16) But like his fellow courtiers, Cohen takes his cues from the throne.
(17) Speaking of the council of cardinals, the advisory panel that met this Tuesday for the first time in what has been likened to a papal G8, he said: "[They are] not courtiers but wise people who share my feelings.
(18) Henry VIII's desperation for a male heir, meanwhile, turned Anne Boleyn's bedroom into a 16th-century Lindo Wing, with every contraction monitored by flocks of ambitious courtiers and the eventual emergence of the conspicuously non-male infant greeted with the sort of reception usually reserved for bears and third-degree cheese burns.
(19) Some courtiers – and the sovereign herself – fear that neither the crown nor its subjects will tolerate the shock of the new,” the book states.
(20) Still, they meant the Queen's partner had an affinity with her subjects that the ducal stuffed-shirt favoured by her courtiers might not have enjoyed.