What's the difference between publican and puplican?
Publican
Definition:
(n.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.
(n.) The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) We know from both Heineken’s words and actions that they will give preference to their own products across their estate, and this is simply not fair for brewers, publicans or consumers.
(2) I’ve been involved with meeting a whole range of beer buyers, meeting politicians and other dignitaries, including Prince Charles, to speaking to publicans and doing tastings in big and small stores.
(3) His own working-class childhood, as the son of a publican in the north-west, had the library for books and the radio for drama: "We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy.
(4) Stacey was a young, attractive woman and one of the show’s stars.” Publican Steve McDonald in Coronation Street is also a major character who everyone likes and can relate to and his struggle with depression has attracted a positive response on social media.
(5) The congregations who come for these, the real purposes of the building, should remember that Jesus talked to publicans and tax collectors.
(6) Both men were publicans as well as hangmen, but had very different personalities.
(7) That would seem to be one conclusion to draw from a new study into wellbeing and public policy, which found that employees reporting greatest job satisfaction were vicars, while publicans – who on average earn almost £5,000 a year more – were the least happy in their work.
(8) So what can be done to improve the wellbeing of the British publican?
(9) A recent survey by pub trade magazine the Publican's Morning Advertiser (PMA) revealed that 63% of licensees are overweight and unhappy about it, and more than half admitted to drinking more than the recommended 21 units of alcohol a week.
(10) Publican John Doyle said: "I've worked my arse off under your regime and I'm going to go bankrupt again for a second time around."
(11) The ad being run by the Premier League warns publicans that this ruling has clarified its right to pursue unauthorised broadcasters.
(12) On 3 February the UK court delivered its judgment on an ECJ ruling relating to a company called QC Leisure, a provider of Greek and Arabic decoder cards to publicans in the UK.
(13) And then, 20 minutes later, he sent this: After meeting Brown, the angry publican – John Doyle – now says he will back Labour, not the Lib Dems.
(14) Many of the associations found were consistent with those that have been described for men, with high mortality ratios for cirrhosis in barmaids and publicans, for suicide in the medical and allied professions, and for respiratory disease in textile workers.
(15) "Should Mrs Murphy, or any other publican, use European Economic Area foreign satellite systems to show Premier League football on their premises without our authority and outside the scope of our authorisation, they make themselves liable for us to take action against them in both the civil and criminal courts," the Premier League spokesman.
(16) Unlike the publicans, landlords, barmaids, barmen, sommeliers, wine waiters, even the mixologists, who kindly make us drunk.
(17) Business is down 10% in Scottish pubs since the smoking ban went into effect in March, a poll of publicans says.
(18) But throw in the context in which publicans are working, and it starts to look decidedly grim.
(19) The sanguine Premier League is already noting that it will be easy to stop publicans using its footage without permission by ensuring that its logo is on screen all the time, or its theme music played every time a replay is aired.
(20) Rob Willock, PMA editor, compares publicans to clergy, the profession that in last week's survey took the top spot.