(v. t.) To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows.
(v. i.) To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.
Example Sentences:
(1) But from then on, he said, he and his family have essentially been left to fend for themselves.
(2) Duncan Smith is also seeking EU allies to fend off European commission legal proceedings claiming that Britain has introduced an additional right to reside test that indirectly discriminates against EU citizens.
(3) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
(4) What a transformation for Coleman who, just over a year ago, had to fend off calls for the sack.
(5) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
(6) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(7) George Osborne has fended off Conservative MPs anxious at proposed cuts to tax credits at a private meeting of party’s 1922 backbench committee, by insisting the changes have to go ahead and warning that if he had not acted then £15bn worth of spending cuts would have to be found elsewhere.
(8) Clinton trained her fire on Trump as she continues to fend off her Democratic challenger, Senator Bernie Sanders , who has narrowed the primary race in California.
(9) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
(10) Snapchat has fended off Facebook already If teens are using Snapchat more and Facebook less, you'll understand why the social network might want to buy or kill it.
(11) In an attempt to fend off accusations that the comprehensive spending review (CSR) - which aims to cut spending in inflation-adjusted terms by £83bn over the next four years - is disproportionately harsh on the less fortunate, Osborne is insisting that the banks - widely blamed for causing the crisis - should pay their share of the financial clean-up operation by signing new tax agreements.
(12) In 2010, the authorities also rushed through changes to labour laws designed to fend off demands from local unions for better working conditions.
(13) Why aren’t they flooding the Senate with phone calls in favor of making people fend for themselves in the healthcare insurance market?
(14) "These animals go on to die of gangrene or other secondary infections, sometimes leaving nursing puppies abandoned to fend for themselves."
(15) So at this time of rock bottom returns, where can savers turn to make something from their cash and fend off inflation?
(16) In their 125th year, the Rooks fended off bankruptcy to become Lewes Community Football Club, thus joining AFC Wimbledon, FC United of Manchester and Exeter City, among others, as collective entities.
(17) Since swooping for the Premier League rights last year (fending off the incumbent partnership of ESPN and Fox, as well as a large bid from the Al Jazeera owned beIN Sports channel) NBC have been aggressively promoting the thoroughness of their coverage, which offers subscribers to their sports network channel NBCSN an additional range of channels showing every game live.
(18) What’s needed The main priority is fending off interest in striker Danny Ings, who is out of contract in the summer, a cut-price option for several rivals but also essential to Burnley’s prospects of staying up.
(19) An important part of the answer lies in a court of appeal judgment from 1998, which says single homeless people are not given priority for housing assistance when homeless, unless they are “less able to fend for himself than an ordinary homeless person so that injury or detriment to him will result when a less vulnerable person would be able to cope without harmful effects”.
(20) The group has paid £1.18bn to fend off Sky and renew exclusive broadcast rights for Champions League and Europa League football.
Vend
Definition:
(v. t.) To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
(n.) The act of vending or selling; a sale.
(n.) The total sales of coal from a colliery.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(2) Last year, at the suggestion of Selfridges, Hook installed and supplied a raw milk vending machine at the flagship store on Oxford Street – a novel way to sell direct to customers, as the law requires.
(3) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
(4) A survey conducted in 1983 revealed that the majority of the student body knew about the vending machine.
(5) The facility stresses self-care, and a bulletin board located near the vending machine provides numerous health education brochures.
(6) Instead of fostering dependency on the nursing staff the vending machine helps the students become self-reliant in reference to assessing their own health needs.
(7) Will the new coin fit parking and vending machines?
(8) As for the sanitation control of vending machines examined, 66 to 74% percent were unsatisfactory.
(9) Under the national rules, which are applied to other state schools, vending machines can only sell healthy snacks such as fruit, nuts and bottles of water.
(10) At posttest 2 in May 1990, 24% sold tobacco over the counter and 93% sold tobacco through vending machines.
(11) However, these differences were not found in vending machine sales.
(12) Like most of the Caribbean, the majority of our population lives on our beautiful coastlines, where they depend on tourism, agriculture, beach-front vending and fishing for their livelihoods.
(13) More polymer notes can be stacked in ATMs than paper notes, and they don't jam vending machines in the same way.
(14) Among a cohort of stores visited by minors at the pretest (n = 104) in June 1988, 71% sold tobacco over the counter and 92% sold tobacco through vending machines.
(15) s-1) were found to be linearly correlated: vMIG = 1.12 + 0.64 vEND (r2 = 0.72; n = 36).
(16) Sent via Guardian Witness By Karthika Gopalakrishnan 22 May 2014, 5:55 Finally spare a thought for the Guardian staff, greeted with this from our vending machines every morning.
(17) They get stuck in the vacuum, my wife slipped on one and fell hard on the tile floor, and I keep unsuccessfully trying to use them in vending machines before realizing they aren't real money.
(18) The Tories would ban the practice of peer-to-peer marketing techniques targeted at children, and also work with headteachers to terminate contracts between schools and vending machine firms.
(19) The move to polymer notes will land shops and banks with a bill of up to £236m , it has been estimated, because ATMs, vending machines and self-service machines will need to be recalibrated to take the new plastic notes, which are 15% smaller than the current notes.
(20) (Hook complied, but still thinks vending machines could be “a great way forward” for small farmers.)