(n.) A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony.
(n.) A horse or pony kept for hire.
(n.) A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.
(n.) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
(a.) Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors.
(v. t.) To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.
(v. t.) To carry in a hackney coach.
Example Sentences:
(1) The model was strongest among the two samples of Hackney respondents.
(2) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
(3) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
(4) Again, he took a coasting, if not moribund, council department and turned it into an innovative, widely admired and emulated approach to social work (known as the "Hackney model").
(5) Despite the best efforts of Moore and the other wannabes in Hackney North, Abbott doubled her majority at this latest election.
(6) We can see this most explicitly in the way that flats in Shoreditch and Hackney and Peckham are too costly for the students and young artists that turned those neighbourhoods into creative hotspots in the first place.
(7) Dance, perform, party in Hackney Wick One of my favourite venues in London is The Yard Theatre.
(8) Over the last 10 days, the company has held meetings with Richard Blakeway, London’s deputy mayor for housing, Meg Hillier, the tenants’ Labour MP, Jules Pipe, the elected mayor of Hackney, and Philip Glanville, the cabinet member for housing at the council.
(9) Less conventional still is Muff Cafe, a custom-motorbike-workshop-cum-really-rather-good-organic-restaurant in Hackney Wick that a friend recommends on condition that "you don't fill it with Guardian readers".
(10) On the top floor of an abandoned office block in Hackney, rehearsals have begun for Beyond Caring .
(11) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
(12) But in November, the pub on Hackney Road announced its closure: the site was earmarked for high-end property development.
(13) JD Sports Verdict LOSER Sales up 3.2% (UK & Ireland, 7 weeks to 5 January) London riots: police guard a JD Sports store targeted by looters in Hackney, east London.
(14) Storing the coins offline, as TradeFortress now recommends, is technologically more complex – and also makes it harder to spend them in the real world (for example, if attempting to buy a beer in Hackney's Pembury Tavern ).
(15) Westbrook could not be contacted for comment, while Hackney council did not respond to a request for comment [see following note].
(16) Finding a long-term partner, and living together Facebook Twitter Pinterest Party time at the Dalston Superstore club in Hackney, London.
(17) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
(18) Neighbouring Tower Hamlets and Hackney also enjoyed a big uplift, with prices up 146% and 143% respectively.
(19) Once keeping their own business taxes, the City of London gains £517m, Westminster and Chelsea gain £1.6m each while the great losers are Birmingham, cut by £175m, Hackney by £116m and Liverpool by another £104m.
(20) Hackney council's planning department is quick to hand out permission to large developers with ambitious high-rise plans, and rumours circulate among planning consultants and architects about the supposed revolving door between jobs in planning and developers' offices.
Hackneyed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Hackney
Example Sentences:
(1) The model was strongest among the two samples of Hackney respondents.
(2) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
(3) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
(4) Again, he took a coasting, if not moribund, council department and turned it into an innovative, widely admired and emulated approach to social work (known as the "Hackney model").
(5) Despite the best efforts of Moore and the other wannabes in Hackney North, Abbott doubled her majority at this latest election.
(6) We can see this most explicitly in the way that flats in Shoreditch and Hackney and Peckham are too costly for the students and young artists that turned those neighbourhoods into creative hotspots in the first place.
(7) Dance, perform, party in Hackney Wick One of my favourite venues in London is The Yard Theatre.
(8) Over the last 10 days, the company has held meetings with Richard Blakeway, London’s deputy mayor for housing, Meg Hillier, the tenants’ Labour MP, Jules Pipe, the elected mayor of Hackney, and Philip Glanville, the cabinet member for housing at the council.
(9) Less conventional still is Muff Cafe, a custom-motorbike-workshop-cum-really-rather-good-organic-restaurant in Hackney Wick that a friend recommends on condition that "you don't fill it with Guardian readers".
(10) On the top floor of an abandoned office block in Hackney, rehearsals have begun for Beyond Caring .
(11) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
(12) But in November, the pub on Hackney Road announced its closure: the site was earmarked for high-end property development.
(13) JD Sports Verdict LOSER Sales up 3.2% (UK & Ireland, 7 weeks to 5 January) London riots: police guard a JD Sports store targeted by looters in Hackney, east London.
(14) Storing the coins offline, as TradeFortress now recommends, is technologically more complex – and also makes it harder to spend them in the real world (for example, if attempting to buy a beer in Hackney's Pembury Tavern ).
(15) Westbrook could not be contacted for comment, while Hackney council did not respond to a request for comment [see following note].
(16) Finding a long-term partner, and living together Facebook Twitter Pinterest Party time at the Dalston Superstore club in Hackney, London.
(17) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
(18) Neighbouring Tower Hamlets and Hackney also enjoyed a big uplift, with prices up 146% and 143% respectively.
(19) Once keeping their own business taxes, the City of London gains £517m, Westminster and Chelsea gain £1.6m each while the great losers are Birmingham, cut by £175m, Hackney by £116m and Liverpool by another £104m.
(20) Hackney council's planning department is quick to hand out permission to large developers with ambitious high-rise plans, and rumours circulate among planning consultants and architects about the supposed revolving door between jobs in planning and developers' offices.