(n.) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
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(1) British at last, Dutch woman 'horrified' at loss of some of her rights Read more Among the other signatories to the letter are Michael and Patty Hopkins, whose works include the Glyndebourne opera house and Portcullis House in Westminster, and Will Alsop, the man behind buildings including the Chips apartment block in Manchester and Peckham library in London, and Amanda Levete, whose striking museum for contemporary art in Lisbon opened last year.
Reveille
Definition:
(n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.
Example Sentences:
(1) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
(2) The Shine Group has expanded rapidly over the past couple of years, with a string of overseas purchases including US Ugly Betty producer Reveille, and has launched or bought programme-making operations in Australia, Germany and Scandanavia.
(3) She used that money to help buy a string of production companies, including Kudos, home to Ashes to Ashes and Reveille, the maker of Ugly Betty.
(4) In the past couple of years the Shine Group has really come into its own, with a string of overseas purchases including the $125m (then worth £76m) buy-up of Reveille, the US company behind Ugly Betty and the American version of The Office, and expansion this year into Australia, Germany and Scandinavia.
(5) The company has expanded through acquisitions, buying UK indies Kudos (Ashes to Ashes, Spooks), Princess (The Wright Stuff, Got To Dance) and Dragonfly (One Born Every Minute, The Family) in late 2006 for £65m; and Reveille, the US producer of The Office, for about £100m in 2008.
(6) The former Sky managing director who quit the Murdoch family business a decade ago has built up a production base responsible for Merlin and MasterChef and home to Ashes to Ashes producer Kudos and Reveille, maker of the US version of The Office.
(7) More than 60% of the company's revenues come from overseas after a spate of acquisitions from Ugly Betty's producer, Reveille, in the US to Metronome in Sweden.