(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.
Superintendent
Definition:
(a.) Overseeing; superintending.
(n.) One who has the oversight and charge of some place, institution, or organization, affairs, etc., with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an almshouse; the superintendent of public works.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ripa can be used with approval from an officer of superintendant level or above, and does not require the police to disclose their intentions to snoop on journalists.
(2) Elizabeth McCaul, CEO of Promontory Europe and former New York Superintendent of Banks, had been asked to act as a special adviser, together with the firm's chief operating officer, Raffaele Cosimo.
(3) However, Superintendent Garry McCarthy told the Chicago SunTimes that the tit-for-tat insult trading on social media was ill-advised .
(5) In fact it was led by Detective Superintendent Richard Chitty (who died in 1983).
(6) The first Berlin specialist was a Dr. Jüngling, a pupil of Mayrhofer, at the "Friedrichshain Hospital", the first medical superintendents were appointed in 1956.
(7) The results of the study provide practical information, ideas and considerations for administrators, curriculum coordinators, superintendents and other responsible for residential staff development.
(8) It provides a measure of relief and reassurance.” Five of the students who had been under quarantine or monitoring returned to school on Monday, and the remaining students will be back in school by Tuesday, Dallas Independent School District superintendent Mike Miles said Monday.
(9) Kavanagh defended Chief Superintendent Sandra Looby, the Tottenham police chief who has been criticised in the media for reportedly flying to Florida on Saturday, just before the rioting broke out.
(10) Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of New York's department of financial services, said last month that he intends to introduce regulation for bitcoins later this year, making New York the first state to do so.
(11) Despite having sacked the police superintendent , Garry McCarthy, on Monday and ordered the formation of a taskforce into police accountability, questions continue to swirl about what Emanuel knew, and when he knew it – questions that at best raise doubts about his grip over his own city and at worst threaten to impugn his integrity.
(12) He said doctors should be allowed to prescribe nevirapine in consultation with hospital superintendents.
(13) Savile had keys to the high-security hospital, accommodation and unrestricted access due to his relationship with the medical superintendent who hoped his fame would improve public perception of the hospital.
(14) At that time there were nine wolves still left on the island, and Isle Royale National Park Superintendent Phyllis Green said: “The decision is not to intervene as long as there is a breeding population.” Regent Honeyeater breeding program boosts population of endangered bird Read more In just one year, that “breeding population” is all but extinct.
(15) She is shellshocked, wearing a neck-brace while facing our old friends DS Arnott (played by Martin Compston) and superintendent Hastings (Adrian Dunbar).
(16) Dr Sudha Dev Kota, the medical superintendent at the hospital, said the seven doctors at the small facility housed in bare brick buildings had treated more than 200 people since Saturday.
(17) Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the gunmen opened fire on the group in retaliation for an earlier shooting in which one of them was slightly wounded.
(18) At the end of the aborted trial, the Met's Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell expressed his regrets: "This current investigation has identified, ever more clearly, how the initial inquiry failed the family and wider public.
(19) The constitutional role of the law officers is to superintend the CPS.
(20) Chief Superintendent Alan McCrum said: "Last night we saw a number of people on the streets who were intent on engaging in violence.