(n.) A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) When occupations were examined individually, motor vehicle operators, truck drivers, vehicle mechanics, other mechanics, and janitors were among those most likely to be diagnosed with high-grade or late-stage tumors.
(2) Raymond Bravo, 36, from San Pablo, California, who earned $10.25 an hour as a janitor for a Walmart's Richmond Hilltop Mall store in California, working 30 hours a week, said he was fired from his job after taking part in the strikes and demonstrations in June.
(3) He was magnificent as the mouldy old white-haired janitor, master of the mop and bucket, supervising an invisible gathering to hear the very last message for humanity.
(4) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … Penry, the mild mannered janitor .
(5) Men employed as janitors and in other building service occupations showed increased relative risk for aggressive tumors (OR = 7.0, CI = 2.5-19.6).
(6) In domestic politics, Gingrich has advocated getting rid of child labour laws so that poor children can work as janitors in their schools.
(7) He plays the part of Ben, a young janitor from El Salvador who is committed to the union.
(8) The role of selective transfer of sick individuals (into, say janitoring or trucking) warrants further investigation.
(9) Another of the three, Rene Gagnon, died of a heart attack at 54, frustrated that his faded celebrity translated ultimately into no more than work as a janitor.
(10) Soon afterwards Laverty was listening to LA's left-wing radio station, KPFK, and heard that an organisation called Justice for Janitors, which represents the people who hoover the corporate carpet and scrub its toilet bowl, was holding a meeting.
(11) It’s harder when things get thrown at your family but that’s become the reality of 21st-century politics.” She recalls her own journey, from janitor’s daughter to Harvard academic to senator, thanks to opportunities she believes were lost to today’s children when Washington decided it was more important to give tax breaks to billionaires and giant corporations.
(12) Not long after the shoot finished, the janitors were on the streets of LA for real, striking and campaigning for a wage increase.
(13) Loach had hoped to release Bread and Roses at the height of the janitors' dispute last year but the release date was set.
(14) Beatty’s family has lived that history: her mother was born outside Birmingham, Alabama, and her father in New Orleans; they ultimately met in New York, where he was working as a janitor.
(15) Elevated maternal age-adjusted relative risks of Down syndrome were found for fathers employed as janitors (odds ratio [OR] = 3.26; 95% confidence interval [C.I.]
(16) I want to be a janitor in the new casino,” she said, “or maybe hand out sodas.” Elizabeth Amidon was one of a few people in line who did know exactly what she wanted to do.
(17) They also embody income inequality, earning significantly higher salaries than the people who share their workplaces as shuttle drivers, security guards, and janitors.
(18) It also might hold memories for Barack Obama and Robert Redford: the president visited the bar in 2012 and ordered a pizza, now designated the Potus pie; the actor pushed a mop as a Sink janitor in his early years.
(19) In addition to standard college newspaper fare – an essay about town-gown relations in which Miller details the “ condescension ” inherent in giving a janitor a birthday card – Miller’s 25 columns, written between September 2005 and April 2007, frequently touch on hot-button issues.
(20) Obama talked of giving "a fair shot" to black janitors, white steelworkers, immigrant dishwashers and Native American veterans.
Maintenance
Definition:
(n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
(n.) That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.
(n.) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(3) 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."
(4) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(5) These results suggest that a certain minimum level of expression of c-myc is required for the maintenance of ras transformation in NIH 3T3 cells.
(6) Maintenance therapy was always steroid-free to start with (cyclosporin+azathioprine) but in almost one half of our oldest survivors, it failed to avoid rejection and we had to add low-dose oral steroids for at least several months.
(7) This quantitative characterization of the properties of conduction and refractoriness of both the accessory pathway and ventriculoatrial conduction system and the relation between these characteristics and the accessory pathway location in ART patients provides additional insight into the prerequisites for the initiation and maintenance of this rhythm disturbance.
(8) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(9) During anaesthesia with 60-70 per cent N2O in O2 and 0.2 per cent isoflurane, a maintenance dose (MD) of fentanyl was administered using a continuous variable-rate IV fentanyl infusion, supplemented by intermittent 50 micrograms IV boluses.
(10) To assess the role of amniotic fluid (AMF) in the maintenance of pregnancy, immunosuppressive effects of AMF were studied in vivo, and the mechanisms of suppressor activity were analyzed immunologically in vitro in the rat.
(11) The purpose of this study was to investigate a tumor cell vaccine delivered via peripheral lymphatics as maintenance therapy after induction of remission with chemotherapy.
(12) The changes in muscle activity had the same pattern and similar phase-frequency properties to those observed under analogous vestibular stimulation during the maintenance of steady posture.
(13) P-450 encoding structural genes but may rather be related to abnormalities in the function of regulatory systems of a higher order which may play a central role in the maintenance of cell homeostasis.
(14) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(15) Nitrous oxide (N2O) is frequently used for maintenance of anesthesia in research animals because of its minimal effect upon circulatory variables and the ability to rapidly alter its anesthetic concentration.
(16) Measurements were repeated at the end of an 8-week maintenance phase.
(17) After 40 programmed minutes of acquisition and 12 min of maintenance, without notice, both schedules changed to extinction for 28 min.
(18) After loss of permanent central incisors the treatment of choice could be either orthodontic closure or maintenance of the gap for a replacement-prosthetic, autotransplantation or implant.
(19) Intense staining for angiotensin-(1-7) immunoreactivity was demonstrable in brain areas related to the maintenance of hydromineral balance, suggesting the involvement of this peptide in this process.
(20) The clinical indications for ECT as a primary treatment of choice, a secondary treatment, and a maintenance or prophylactic treatment for depression are described.