(n.) One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
(n.) One who plays any game.
(n.) A dramatic actor.
(n.) One who plays on an instrument of music.
(n.) A gamester; a gambler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(4) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
(5) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(6) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(7) Of course they should play if the players still want to.
(8) The others were two Britons, Mark Cox and John Barrett (now both BBC commentators) and the US player Jim McManus.
(9) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(10) Huth, a Stoke player for more than five years, has made only one Premier League appearance since suffering a knee injury in November 2013.
(11) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(12) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
(13) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(14) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
(15) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
(16) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
(17) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(18) "I have to say that I have been a Chelsea player since 2004 and I have never had six minutes in my favour when I was losing.
(19) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(20) It’s not just that Lester was one of the first signs that the Red Sox’s commitment to players from their own system was starting to pay off.
Vendor
Definition:
(n.) A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain's estate agents today report a surge in the number of properties for sale amid signs jittery vendors are keen to strike a deal before next month's general election.
(2) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
(3) The most basic mark of credibility for a Democratic campaign is whether it has bought access to the voter file as administered through NGP VAN , the Democratic party’s quasi-official vendor for voting information.
(4) Drugs, equipment and supplies are available through the hospital and contract vendors.
(5) It is suggested that primary responsibility for quality control be placed on the relatively few manufacturer-vendors rather than on the multiple purchaser-users, who may not possess either the expertise or the resources for quality control programs.
(6) Because fused silica columns with immobilized stationary phases of varying polarities are offered by numerous vendors of chromatographic equipment, they have become widely used for many analytical tasks.
(7) However, enzymatic kits for free glycerol analysis obtained from different vendors have, on occasion, provided different results for a given sample.
(8) "We've got no more food and no more house, so leaving is the only thing to do," Livena Livel, a 22-year-old street vendor, told Associated Press.
(9) There is still plenty vendors can do to make sure their property stands out in the online "beauty parade", says John Durrant, a former estate agent turned professional photographer, whose website www.doctor-photo.co.uk will improve photographs of your home for just £3 a shot.
(10) Street vendors and shoppers also appear to have been targeted in an attack in central Baghdad just hours later.
(11) I looked on the UK cannabis forum, which had 30,000 postings, and a vendor called JesusOfRave was recommended.
(12) For searchers without access to a medical library or for more experienced searchers, an information vendor such as BRS, MEDIS, or DIALOG may be more appropriate.
(13) Germany and the Netherlands were joint third in the numbers of dealers, with 225 each, although Dutch vendors made fewer but, on average, larger transactions and operated in a far smaller jurisdiction.
(14) On 2 August Fayaz Rah, a 39-year-old fruit vendor from Batamaloo, had lunch with his wife and three children.
(15) Inside, vendors sold balloons, candyfloss and posters of Sisi with Nasser, Sisi with a roaring lion, Sisi with his trademark sunglasses.
(16) An annotated guide to database vendors is provided, and guidelines are offered that will assist the physician in selecting equipment and assessing services.
(17) The rationale for a statewide list and the criteria for choosing vendors are discussed.
(18) Where in July street vendors sold hats and T-shirts with slogans such as “Hillary for Prison” and “Life’s a bitch, don’t vote for one”, this week the merchandise says “Hard working town Cleveland”, “Land of champions”, “C*town don’t back down” and “I liked Cleveland before it was cool”.
(19) Pasteurella multocida was isolated from 42 of the 135 (31%) deep nasal swabs from clinically healthy conventional rabbits supplied by two vendors.
(20) Working with the radiology department to compile a standard list of radiopharmaceuticals and radiopaque contrast media and soliciting competitive bids by vendors of these products resulted in annual savings of more than $83,000.