(a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.
(n.) One who wanders about.
Example Sentences:
(1) Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said he would be astonished if the coalition had not enacted a lobbyists' register and a power to recall errant MPs by 2015.
(2) To do that, it needed to stamp down on errant food industry practices.
(3) "Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president's airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close."
(4) They also produced soft boots with Velcro straps, parent-friendly, one-strap bindings (though kids can also ride without) and a Riglet Reel tow rope that tacks on to the front of the board so that you can pull your toddler along like an errant spaniel, while giving them a good idea of the snow-riding sensation they are aiming for.
(5) The lead stood at two goals before Andre Marriner's errant judgment.
(6) That’s why a boycott is such an ineffective path to shaming our errant oligarchs, particularly in the case of LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
(7) Fisher was forgiven and is busy organising for Momentum , the grassroots Corbyn campaign to bring errant MPs to heel.
(8) Being sutureless, no tension is placed on any layer; there is no damage to tissues from an errant suturing technique.
(9) Neonatal patients received the lowest rate of errant orders.
(10) The next few days will be critical as Beijing weighs up its options, but for now the likelihood is that China will chose cautious diplomatic hedging rather than decisive action against its errant North Korean ally.
(11) 49 min: Another half-hearted Paraguay attack ends in failure, when an errant pass is played straight to the feet of one of New Zealand's very well organised back three.
(12) Ministers are to revive shelved plans for laws to be introduced before 2015 to regulate lobbyists and recall errant MPs following days of sleaze allegations which may well have damaged the standing of parliament.
(13) Can he get these errant types – known disparagingly as à la carte or cafeteria Catholics – to dine from the fixed menu?
(14) The purpose of this study was to record prospectively the frequency of and potential harm caused by errant medication orders at two large pediatric hospitals.
(15) Mr Holder is also pressing voting rights lawsuits across the county that directly challenge Chief Justice John Roberts’s errant view that the era of racial discrimination in the United States is over.
(16) One of my clients waited until midnight for his errant son to visit to play Scrabble with him – the son never arrived.
(17) He was prevented from giving Liverpool the first major Premier League win of the Brendan Rodgers' era only by an assistant referee's errant flag for offside in stoppage time.
(18) Vickers said Ipso would have an investigative arm and would impose tough sanctions on errant publishers, including fines of up to £1m for systemic wrongdoing, giving it "absolute teeth, very real teeth".
(19) As far as much of the audience is concerned, these errant former child stars seem like exotic commodities to be traded on the scandal market, although they are also clearly just young people living under abnormal levels of scrutiny.
(20) The combined results of the mutation and adduct characterizations suggest that there are basic differences in the structural configuration of each adduct species which are recognized during errant DNA repair and as a result lead to base changes at a frequency which is relatable to the configuration of the original adduct lesion.
Task
Definition:
(v.) Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
(v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
(v. t.) To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
(v. t.) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
(v. t.) To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(3) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
(5) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
(6) Early detection of breast cancer is the major indication, and mammography is the single best test for this task.
(7) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
(8) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(9) The effects of noise on information processing in perceptual and memory tasks, as well as time reaction to perceptual stimuli, were investigated in a laboratory experiment.
(10) A control experiment demonstrated that changes in general arousal could not account for the effects of task difficulty on neuronal responses.
(11) The pattern of results in simpler tasks is more difficult to interpret.
(12) In the appetitive passive avoidance task, only the substantia nigra lesion group exhibited a deficiency.
(13) For such a task, Malawi needs the best government it can get, and this will have to be demanded by the people.
(14) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
(15) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(16) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
(17) Similarities are pointed out between tasks used for the purpose of operationally defining the schizophrenic 'deficit' and tasks used to define creativity.
(18) On the reaction time task no main effects were found but the time X drinker category interaction was significant; in session 1 LSD's RT were shorter than those of HSD.
(19) Two different mental stressors were used: a mental arithmetic task with low stimulus intensity and one with high stimulus intensity characterised by more challenging instructions, a more competitive situation, and exposure to affective noise.
(20) This information then will allow the physician to determine safe levels of ventilation for a particular work task.