What's the difference between landman and seaman?

Landman


Definition:

  • (n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.
  • (n.) An occupier of land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a sneak preview of the findings, Howard Reed of Landman Economics, who was commissioned to do the work, told a meeting this week that "most of the gain" from raising the income tax allowance goes to "families who aren't very poor in the first place", and instead increasing tax credits for working low-income families was the "best targeted way of encouraging work among lone parents and workless couples".
  • (2) Landman Economics – an organisation quoted on the Labour party's own press release to justify Miliband's "make work pay" plan yesterday – has released a report this morning that states : "it is unlikely that the extension of the living wage to all UK employees would result in any substantial aggregate employment losses.
  • (3) It is low-income working families who are bearing the brunt of benefit cuts: figures from Landman Economics show over £4 in every £5 of benefit cuts are hitting working households.
  • (4) Through mutualisation, however, Landman says the government could recoup its bailout money via an income stream known as "profit participating deferred shares" in the bank, which made a £232m loss last year, has £22.5bn of assets and operates 70 high street branches.
  • (5) Analysis firm Landman Economics concluded earlier this year that remutualisation of Northern Rock would deliver a better payback to taxpayers than a sale.
  • (6) In a boost to a parliamentary campaign calling for Northern Rock to be owned by its members, analysis firm Landman Economics has concluded that, based on the stock performances of similar banks, a flotation or trade sale would not raise sufficient funds to make up the £50bn of public support pumped into Northern Rock.
  • (7) CPAG's figures were compiled by Landman Economics from data in the Family Resources Survey .
  • (8) Landman, run by Howard Reed, former chief economist at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), points out that mutually owned building societies, which dabble in fewer exotic financial instruments, weathered the crisis relatively well and argues that a balance between mutuals and privately owned banks would bode well for economic stability.
  • (9) As part of its mandate to ensure the impact of policy changes on “protected groups” is taken into account properly, the Equality and Human Rights Commission asked analysis firm Landman Economics and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research to produce just such a “cumulative impact assessment”.
  • (10) That’s money that could be spent on stopping the crisis in our schools and hospitals and making sure every elderly person gets decent care.” The analysis, conducted for the TUC by consultancy Landman Economics , used tax and benefit modelling to gauge the impact of the rise in insecure work since 2006.
  • (11) The promoters are the iridiologist J. Landman, the nutritional consultant E. Wannee and the writer R. Jochems.
  • (12) Research last year by Landman Economics showed that the cost to the exchequer of millions of workers paid less than the living wage – "wage dodging", as the GMB calls it – is £3.23bn a year in social security spending and lower tax receipts.

Seaman


Definition:

  • (n.) A merman; the male of the mermaid.
  • (n.) One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The last save in a competitive match was perhaps the most memorable: David Seaman stopping Gary McAllister's 'rolling ball' during Euro 96.
  • (2) "They have some lawsuits in the works, and they're pretty passionate people," said Paul Seamans, of Draper, South Dakota, who farms and ranches on land the pipeline would cross.
  • (3) In March 1941 Freud signed on as an ordinary seaman on the armed merchant cruiser SS Baltrover, bound for Nova Scotia.
  • (4) Top coach-in-residence Mark Seaman is on hand to teach you how to bunnyhop like a pro – and avoid biffing (crashing).
  • (5) He spent four years in the navy after joining as a boy seaman.
  • (6) Trident whistleblower needs to be listened to even if he is exaggerating Read more Able Seaman William McNeilly, 25, a newly qualified engineer, claimed that Britain’s nuclear deterrent was a “disaster waiting to happen” in a report detailing 30 alleged safety and security breaches, including a collision between HMS Vanguard and a French submarine during which a senior officer thought: “We’re all going to die.” McNeilly wrote that a chronic shortage of personnel meant that it was “a matter of time before we’re infiltrated by a psychopath or a terrorist; with this amount of people getting pushed through”.
  • (7) Seaman saved the penalty, Jason McAteer rammed in the rebound, and Fowler ended up winning Uefa's Fair Play award for his honesty.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Arsenal dominated the ball, but in the 105th minute, Ryan Giggs, a second-half substitute, leapt upon a Patrick Vieira mistakeand darted between Lee Dixon, Martin Keown and Tony Adams before smashing the ball past David Seaman to score one of the great FA Cup goals .
  • (9) Results further indicate that, just as cell partition in charged phase systems reflects membrane charge-associated properties not readily measured by means other than partition (Brooks, D.E., Seaman, G.V.F.
  • (10) We can confirm that Able Seaman McNeilly has left the naval service the details of which are a matter for the individual and his employer,” said a naval spokeswoman.
  • (11) Hobsbawm married his first wife, Muriel Seaman, in 1943.
  • (12) Able Seaman McNeilly, 25, is in the custody of Royal Navy police at an undisclosed military establishment in Scotland after he was apprehended at Edinburgh airport on Monday night.
  • (13) (MACLENNAN, D.H., YIP, C. C., ILES, G. H., and SEAMAN, P. (1972) Cold Spring Harbor Symp.
  • (14) Gillies first used the tubed pedicle flap in reconstructing the face of a naval seaman burned in World War I. Axial pattern flaps such as the deltopectoral are widely used in the treatment of head and neck cancer and the one-stage free flap obviously has an exciting future.
  • (15) The more sophisticated computer analysis of the data has revealed a substantial CD contribution from the low-affinity sites (approximately 30% of the high affinity contribution at pH 6.94) and suggests that skeletal TN-C with Ca2+ bound at the low-affinity sites is in a different conformation from that when just the high-affinity sites are occupied, in agreement with a recent nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study on this system (Seaman, K. B., Hartshorne, D. J.
  • (16) "I mean, you just wouldn't see David Seaman or Jens Lehmann wearing a pink shirt, would you?
  • (17) Barewood College, near Wokingham, was a school for the sons of merchant seaman (Kemp's father was a sailor; he was lost at sea in 1940).
  • (18) It also showed a handwritten letter purporting to be by leading seaman Turney to her parents, saying she had "written a letter to the Iranian people to apologise for us entering into their waters".
  • (19) Mankell, who has been politically active from a young age and was once a merchant seaman, said he had been struck by the lack of other writers and intellectuals on the voyage and called on others to become involved.
  • (20) David Seaman came racing out of his area, but Giggs took the ball round him and round Sol Campbell to leave sight of an open goal.

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