(n.) The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
(n.) A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
(n.) One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
(n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
(n.) The male of a pair of animals.
(v. t.) To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
(v. t.) To cultivate, as land; to till.
(v. t.) To furnish with a husband.
Example Sentences:
(1) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(2) Some 10 years after arriving in Sheffield with her husband and three-year-old son, Bazzie is a success story.
(3) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(4) Prostitute visit is a main risk factor, irrespective of whether the husband had a history of sexually transmitted diseases or not.
(5) In each of the four study sites, focus group discussions or in-depth interviews were held with potential acceptors, current NORPLANT users, discontinuers, husbands of women in these three groups, and service providers.
(6) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(7) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
(8) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
(9) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
(10) MLC's were carried out between the cells from the serum donor and her husband in the presence of nonimmune AB serum and the test serum.
(11) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
(12) The director of the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Alexandra Hildebrandt, keeps a tally started by her late husband Rainer, the museum’s founder, which currently lists 1,720 victims.
(13) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(14) [Disclosure: Newly-elected Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman elected to Congress, is a college friend of my husband’s.]
(15) According to calculations by the Resolution Foundation, a couple with two children in which the husband works full-time and the wife works part-time on or just above minimum wage stand to lose a total of £720 a year by 2020.
(16) ‘It’s hard to understand why we have all had to go through this’ – Angelene Wright, 66, from Lincolnshire I’m a carer for my 64-year-old husband who is in the final stages of multiple sclerosis.
(17) Braff will direct and play the lead role of a father, actor and husband struggling to find his identity.
(18) The wife shared four major histocompatibility (HLA) antigens with her husband.
(19) Husband's self-care activities, uncertainty, and husband's physical and mental symptoms were concerns that spouses frequently reported at T2.
(20) My husband believes in human rights, democracy and transparency.
Pollard
Definition:
(n.) A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches.
(n.) A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit.
(n.) A fish, the chub.
(n.) A stag that has cast its antlers.
(n.) A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
(v. t.) To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows.
Example Sentences:
(1) The arts broadcaster Lord Bragg said Hall, who moves to the BBC from running the Royal Opera House, had no option but to cut a swath through BBC middle management in the wake of the damning conclusions of the Pollard report into the Savile crisis.
(2) I welcome Nick Pollard's recommendations in this area.
(3) Pollard told a press conference following the publication of his report on Wednesday: "Perhaps the most worrying aspect was not the decision to drop the [Newsnight] story but complete inability to deal with the events that followed for a few months after the Savile investigation was halted."
(4) Lord Patten, the BBC Trust chairman, said in a press conference after the publication of the Pollard report that it was taking legal advice about Entwistle's payoff, which has attracted significant criticism.
(5) Distressed, ashamed and hopeless – the experience of being ‘fit for work’ | Dawn Howley Read more Tom Pollard, the policy and campaigns manager at the mental health charity Mind , said: “This worrying study shines a light on the damaging impact the work capability assessments can have on people’s mental health.
(6) The basis of Pollard's arrest was a memo he had written for the Sun newsdesk in 2009 after receiving a call from a woman in Manchester.
(7) The archaeologist and television presenter Tony Pollard wrote : "#twittersilence?
(8) Stephen Pollard, the lawyer representing Rose, previously defended the Barings Bank rogue trader Nick Leeson and property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz in his successful fight against the SFO.
(9) "We have to be clear at that point I didn't know what that dark side was," Younghusband told Pollard's panel.
(10) I'm sure we'll learn more from the Pollard review, but it increasingly looks as if the editor, Peter Rippon, really wasn't sure of the story his journalists had brought him.
(11) One senior BBC executive resigned and another three were moved from their jobs following the publication of the 185-page report by Nick Pollard, the former head of Sky News.
(12) Entwistle, who left the BBC after 54 days as director-general, told Pollard that the question of how to handle the death of a celebrity with a dubious personal life was one of judgment.
(13) Pollard said he believed that police "hoped" they would uncover a phone-hacking scandal similar to that at the now-closed News of the World.
(14) The huge jump is in part due to payouts of £470,000, plus £107,000 in legal fees relating to the Pollard inquiry into the Savile scandal, to former director general George Entwistle, who left after just 54 days in November as the Jimmy Savile scandal engulfed the BBC.
(15) Glaciologists call such an event a collapse, but Pollard said it would not be rapid, and would take thousands of years to unfold: "We had a bit of a debate whether to use the word collapse in the paper.
(16) Pollard was arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods and subjected to a year-long investigation based on a memo he had written to his bosses at the paper in 2009.
(17) Pollard said that he feels the 60 peer reviews investigated by the DWP since February 2012 should be examined together and the results of any lessons learned or key issues that may emerge published.
(18) The Pollard transcripts revealed how little preparation Entwistle had before his disastrous appearance before MPs on the culture, media and sport select committee in October last year.
(19) Witnesses have been questioned for several hours in many cases, with Pollard presiding over a hearing in which past and present BBC executives are questioned by Alan Maclean QC , who advised Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell during the Hutton inquiry into the death of David Kelly – and whose findings led to the resignation of another BBC director general.
(20) He will also have to deal with the crisis of leadership exposed by the Pollard review.