(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.
Typewriter
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.
(n.) One who uses such an instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Slipstream recounts how, on one writing holiday, they swapped typewriters and wrote a few pages of each other's novels.
(2) Remember this, non-Theater People: if you think Broadway shows are too commercial, too bloated and bedazzled, remember that for every Ring of Fire or Tarzan there is a 90-minute play that takes place in a typewriter factory.
(3) Apart from the novels, plays, film scripts, sitcoms and magazine articles that flowed unceasingly from his vintage Adler typewriter (he hated new technology), he also wrote a twice-weekly newspaper column, beginning in the Daily Mirror in 1970, and from 1988 for the Daily Mail, until the paper announced his retirement last May.
(4) He is not allowed a typewriter or computer, and spends most of his day reading memoirs of those who wrote while incarcerated.
(5) The church panels that inspired the petitions’ design can be seen in a dimmed room at nearby Yirrkala art centre, where it’s rumoured you can also see the typewriter that clacked out the petition in English and Yolngu – another seminal achievement.
(6) Christian Flisek, the SPD's representative on the committee, told Spiegel Online: "This call for mechanical typewriters is making our work sound ridiculous.
(7) The system depends on the preparation of reports on an electric typewriter producing punched paper tape as a byproduct.
(8) By means of this simple system there is an improvement of the information and the typewriting work of medical staff has been reduced.
(9) A few weeks went by before the unthinkable happened: I received a fax from New York with a letter from Salinger himself – densely typed on a manual typewriter with, at the top, the date and the word "Cornish", the town in New Hampshire where he lived his reclusive life.
(10) But judging by the reaction to Sensburg's comments, manual typewriters are unlikely to be widely adopted in German political circles.
(11) This investigation explored the interaction of progressive-part versus whole methods of practice with hemispheric preference for processing information and the impact of each upon high school students' speed and accuracy in beginning typewriting.
(12) He was said to have written his first story, entitled Jim's Adventure, aged eight, the framed first page of which, picked out with two fingers on his father's typewriter, had pride of place in his study.
(13) For example, full pronation may be required for feeding, but only half the range is necessary to operate the keyboard of a computer or typewriter.
(14) We describe four cases of sudden death in adolescents associated with recreational sniffing of typewriter correction fluid occurring during the period 1979 through mid-1984.
(15) I didn't like to write about my own writing, but I was interested in how my children - I have many children, eight children - how they saw their father with his typewriter, an old-fashioned typewriter.
(16) Asked "Are you considering typewriters" by the interviewer on Monday night, the Christian Democrat politican Patrick Sensburg said: "As a matter of fact, we have – and not electronic models either".
(17) Blind people may use reading machines with speech output to become relatively independent in text reading and text preparation using typewriters.
(18) She joined Chatto & Windus when publishers used carbon paper and typewriters and stopped for tea daily.
(19) In a few minutes, he's done and we find ourselves gazing at a TV screen that fills with streams of code, ASCII typewriter-style stuff like I used to see in my short year of computer science lessons (1982-83).
(20) take into consideration the utilisation of the Olivetti calculator system including the following hardware: P 652 basic unit microcomputer; paper tape reader LN 20; Editor 4 ST typewriter, for RIA evaluation.