What's the difference between innkeeper and victualler?

Innkeeper


Definition:

  • (n.) An innholder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With new reforming zeal, Webb compared pension companies to the innkeeper in Les Misérables – " Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice, two per cent for looking in the mirror twice " – as he accused them of "ever more inventive ways of extracting money from their clients".
  • (2) The union also pays for bar workers to earn qualifications from the British Society of Innkeepers.
  • (3) Innkeepers, cooks, and owners or managers of guest houses had high rates of cancers of the digestive system.
  • (4) In May 2012, BrewDog was voted Scottish Bar Operator of the Year by the members of the British Institute of Innkeeping (BII).
  • (5) Sacha Baron Cohen will next be seen in a supporting role as an innkeeper in Tom Hooper's lavish adaptation of Les Misérables.
  • (6) Canvassing for Votes, one of a series of four wonderful paintings by William Hogarth about the corruption of parliamentary elections in the 18th century, depicts agents for the Tories and the Whigs flourishing banknotes at an innkeeper in an attempt to bribe him.

Victualler


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He became chair of the Society of Licensed Victuallers, recognised for his fundraising work.
  • (2) The claim for a zero tolerance for victuals and ready-to-use baby foods is corroborated.
  • (3) A hypothesis is framed about which any influences of the nutrition may cause variations of the cranium, but concerning physiological data, kinds of nutrition and special victuals' ingredients cannot still be mentioned.
  • (4) West and east Indian trade founded merchant dynasties, but also created a hinterland of ship builders, outfitters, victuallers, warehousemen, carriers and wholesalers.
  • (5) Data were collected from the stores accounts of six ships over a period of 32,354 man-victualling-days.
  • (6) In 1849 C. D. Schroff established therein the Institute for Experimental Pharmacology of Vienna University and around 1864 A. E. Vogl began his outstanding microscopic investigations of pharmacologically relevant plants and of victuals.

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