What's the difference between goods and spiv?

Goods


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) See Good, n., 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (2) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (3) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (4) I want to get some good insight before I make my decision,” said Hiddink.
  • (5) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
  • (6) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (7) This new observation offers good possibilities to study the metabolism of tryptophan at the cellular level.
  • (8) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
  • (9) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (10) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
  • (11) Reasonably good agreement is seen between theoretical apparent rate-vesicle concentration relationships and those measured experimentally.
  • (12) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (13) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
  • (14) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
  • (15) "We do not think the Astra management have done a good job on behalf of shareholders.
  • (16) Good fixation was obtained in 4 cases using Steffee's devices.
  • (17) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (18) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
  • (19) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (20) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.

Spiv


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Linehan is giving bigger roles to the other gangsters, not least the Teddy Boy spiv Harry, originally depicted by Peter Sellers, who will be played on stage by Stephen Wight.
  • (2) "McLoughlin is merely offering to hold passengers' coats while they keep getting mugged every year by the same set of spivs – the private rail firms."
  • (3) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
  • (4) Vince Cable today went ahead with his critique on the "murky" world of high finance, railing against the "spivs and gamblers" of the City despite a backlash against pre-briefed elements of the speech.
  • (5) The businessman’s reputation was dealt a further blow following a debate in which he was labelled a “billionaire spiv” who should never have received his honour in the first place.
  • (6) The tone of the language used by the business secretary, Vince Cable, at the Lib Dem conference this week has alarmed some bankers – whom he dubbed "spivs" – ahead of the commission.
  • (7) He added: "Those [Cable] once referred to as spivs and gamblers are laughing all the way to the bank."
  • (8) Four phospholipases (Sm-SP1 to Sm-SPIV) were also isolated, the latter showing, similarly to BthTX (Sm-SPv) myonecrotic activity.
  • (9) The list, which was published by Cable on Wednesday following a long campaign by politicians and the media, revealed that three aggressive hedge funds were given the "golden ticket" status despite the business secretary's pledge that Royal Mail would not fall into the hands of "spivs and speculators".
  • (10) To the aesthete Guardian, the average City trader looks pretty ugly because they drive swanky cars and are spivs,” he tells me, “but you should respect the mores and the facts.” I promise to try.
  • (11) CJ Facebook Twitter Pinterest AL Kennedy: ‘I’d rather not give vandals and spivs power over my emotions.’ Photograph: Murdo Macleod AL Kennedy Writer and comedian I live in London now.
  • (12) He later told Sky News that "spivs and speculators" shouldn't distract from the important job of putting Royal Mail on a sound commercial footing.
  • (13) "Each of those chosen few investors was given, on average, 18 times more shares than other bidders, on the basis … they would not be spivs and speculators.
  • (14) 9.27am BST Vince Cable also tells Sky News that the government's aim is to get good value for the taypayer, which he claims the government has done, and putting the company on a better footing Photograph: Sky News 9.21am BST Cable: Never mind the spivs and speculators Business secretary Vince Cable is up on Sky News, being challenged over the 35% surge in Royal Mail shares this morning.
  • (15) The capital's bankers may be glorified spivs, but we need them to maintain a respectable balance of trade and not be swept aside in the next stage of globalised capitalism.
  • (16) "McLoughlin is merely offering to hold passengers' coats while they keep getting mugged every year by the the same set of spivs – the private rail firms."
  • (17) In the photographs I had seen, Catrambone sported a spiv’s moustache, though he was starting to add what would become a thick, tightly curled beard.
  • (18) Only, I suppose, that expressing yourself is partly about feeling you can do so without being restricted by gender – even if that means dressing up in a trilby, a spiv's suit and a badly glued-on moustache.
  • (19) The business secretary Vince Cable makes speeches about spivs and charlatans and is applauded in the press.
  • (20) They got rich because, other than spivs and gamblers, they enjoyed their work and were good at it.

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