What's the difference between lacker and lackey?

Lacker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lacks or is in want.
  • (n. & v.) See Lacquer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lacker and George are among the Fed policymakers who most urge an active fight against future high inflation.
  • (2) It mainly depends of lacker cracks initial location if macular quite wrong, if intramacular, quite right.
  • (3) Lacker, who is not a voting member of the Fed’s policy-setting committee this year but participates in its discussions, said recent strong job growth suggested the US economy was still on a solid growth path.
  • (4) Ongoing strength in the US job market could give the Federal Reserve justification for multiple interest rate increases this year, Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker said on Wednesday.
  • (5) 5.57pm BST Europe's financial strains are likely to abate next year, according to US Federal Reserve member Jeffrey Lacker.
  • (6) This perspective would bolster the case for raising the federal funds rate target,” Lacker said.
  • (7) The statement was approved on a 9-1 vote, with Atlanta Fed president Jeffrey M Lacker dissenting for the second straight meeting.
  • (8) These lacker cracks happen early in the myopia degeneration evolution in young patients.
  • (9) Lacker said one reason to believe rates should rise is that estimates of the economy’s so-called natural real rate of interest, the rate when economists think there will be normal economic growth and stable inflation, are at or just above zero.
  • (10) Lacker has proposed a simple mathematical model of follicle development that can account for the regulation of ovulation number.
  • (11) Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker – who is not a voting member of the Fed’s policy-setting committee – said last month that recent job growth would justify multiple rate hikes this year.
  • (12) Federal Reserve meeting minutes show uncertainty about global economy Read more “I still think prospects for rate increases this year is the logical” view, Lacker said in a presentation to a business school in Baltimore, adding that economic data did not indicate that a recession was imminent in the United States.
  • (13) Lacker had pushed for the Fed to begin raising rates by moving the federal funds rate up by a quarter-point.
  • (14) A theory of follicle selection (Lacker, 1981) is tested in the primate by simulating the effects of estradiol administration at different times, strengths, and durations during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle (Clark et al., 1981; Zeleznik, 1981; Dierschke et al., 1985).
  • (15) Voting against the action was Jeffrey Lacker, who opposed additional asset purchases and preferred to omit the description of the time period over which exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate are likely to be warranted.
  • (16) The statement said Lacker doesn't "anticipate that economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate through late 2014".
  • (17) However, the vote was not unanimous – as it normally is – with Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Fed’s Atlanta regional bank, casting a vote for an increase.
  • (18) That is the same proportion as in September with Jeffrey Lacker, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, being the only member to push for a 25 basis points increase.
  • (19) Both fundic and pancreatic IRG9,000 were devoid of glycogenolytic activity and lacker adenylate cyclase stimulating activity and 125I-glucagon displacing activity when tested on partially purified rat liver membranes.
  • (20) Both Lacker and Fisher are considered Fed hawks and if they say something supportive of a December taper, it could trigger dollar buying in the afternoon session.

Lackey


Definition:

  • (v.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
  • (v. t.) To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.
  • (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 1.20am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 3, top of the 4th Lackey gets ahead of Freese 1-2, if he could work around the error it would be- Freese takes strike three!
  • (2) thuringiensis towards brown-tail moth, as compared to its action on lackey moth, may be due to the bactericidal properties of some intestine microorganisms of brown-tail moth, and also the absence in their intestines of microorganisms stimulating growth of the entomopathogenic bacteria.
  • (3) Levine would not approve; Kanoti would delay the biopsy for several months to explore alternatives and leave time for reflection; and Lackey would approve based on the volunteer's knowledge and acceptance of his loss of function and his desire to find some way to participate in his wife's treatment.
  • (4) 3.26am GMT Pitching change John Lackey is in for his first postseason relief appearance in 11 years.
  • (5) John Lackey is back out, probably getting sick of this run support b.s.. Jon Jay hits a tricky flyball that Ellsbury can track down for out one.
  • (6) Various organisms of the intestine microflora of lackey moth display bacteriostatic action towards Bac.
  • (7) Lackey gets Freese in an 0-2 hole, and strikes him out with a 1-2 curveball for out number two.
  • (8) Rays 3 - Red Sox 5, top of the 5th And this is a game again, James Loney drives in both baserunners by hitting an old school Lackey pitch for a double!
  • (9) The media guide proclaimed Lackey as part of Three Aces along with homegrown left-hander Jon Lester and 2007 ALCS MVP Josh Beckett.
  • (10) In the second (and final) series of Grandma's House last year, the career of "the character" Simon Amstell couldn't even get a gig presenting his aunt's local charity quiz; his only chance of going to America was as his semi-boyfriend's lackey.
  • (11) 2.07am BST Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 4th And John Lackey is backey for the fourth.
  • (12) John Lackey would have to pitch well enough to make fans forget that he was very recently the most hated athlete in Boston .
  • (13) @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 1.49am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 6, top of the 5th Jon Jay is up, it's important for Lackey to keep that 1-0 game mentality going here.
  • (14) On Lackey's first inning: Nick Holden (@nick4glengate) @HunterFelt In cricket, we'd call that "bowling to his field".
  • (15) Thankfully for Lackey, Jon Jay pops up and Molina can't score on the out.
  • (16) Richie (@richiemetsoh) @HunterFelt "Pedroia playing deep shallow" #mccarverwatch October 31, 2013 12.55am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 3rd Lackey isn't fooling Matt Carpenter though, who wisely jumps ahead and assumes a strike and knocks a single.
  • (17) This time Lackey gets him to swing and miss and just look bad on strike three.
  • (18) If a commitment to the impossibility of objective reporting means that any position, however bizarre, is no better or worse than any other, the ultimate effect, which may be the intended one, is to suggest that all media organisations are equally untrustworthy – and to elevate any journalistic errors by the BBC or New York Times into indisputable signs they are lackeys of their own governments.
  • (19) 3.15am BST Pitching change Lackey is out, Breslow is in.
  • (20) Still, obstacles such as spoken-for jersey numbers have never seemed to deter determined athletes, and we’ve since learned that Lackey was happy to pony up for his favorite digits.