What's the difference between quartermaster and stationery?
Quartermaster
Definition:
(n.) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
(n.) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.
Example Sentences:
(1) A quartermaster for the organisation in Belfast, Molloy is said to have confessed to having been an informer for the British for three years, disclosing the location of arms dumps and possibly providing information in 1973 that led to the arrest of 16 leading members, including Adams and Hughes.
(2) "You were the trained chemist and quartermaster and you were in direct communication with Pakistan," the judge said.
(3) Assad Sarwar Former postman Sarwar, 29 was said by the prosecution to be the quartermaster of the plot, purchasing and storing bomb-making materials.
(4) But they also left audiences wondering quite why producers had bothered to introduce this bumbling new take on the MI6 quartermaster (who also inadvertently let Raoul Silva in to embark on his rampage through the corridors of power, lest we forget).
Stationery
Definition:
(n.) The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.
(a.) Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The payments were made for ICT hardware, software, associated support services, marketing and company stationery.
(2) Thin stationery paper is used as the absorbent material which controls sedimentation speed and minimizes cellular loss.
(3) Doctor, nurse, chiropodist, dietitian, clerical officer, building and stationery costs were included in the evaluation.
(4) Simple things like buying stationery to sharing grounds and office space are good places to look."
(5) Daft deal Photograph: Debbie Wilbur Three for the price of two is the kind of deal you see all the time, but Asda has gone a little bit further with this offer of three pencil sharpeners for the price of four – it's even included other stationery in the promotion.
(6) His rain-dependent crops were failing anyway, and he hoped to start a stationery shop in a near by town with the money.
(7) The supermarket said electrical goods, homewares, flowers, stationery and toys were particularly buoyant.
(8) Stationery and Reprographics Officer, Royal Household.
(9) Gone are the days when winning The Apprentice meant a lifetime spent buffing Lord Sugar's paperclip collection while weeping with glee in a stationery cupboard off the A1023.
(10) It's a type of benefit on offer for 16- to 18-year-olds in further education from low-income families intended to help pay for essential resources that parents are unable to fund, such as books, stationery and travel cards.
(11) Two groups were allowed to keep their stationery, and two groups were not.
(12) We discuss how pupils have to choose what uniform to wear, what books to read, what sports to play, even what stationery to use, and I think of Julia insisting on wearing her school skirt, and Tom’s football-boot pencil case.
(13) Three-quarters (77%) were providing school bags and stationery; almost half (46%) have provided basic items of clothing like underwear; almost a quarter (24%) have provided laundry facilities; 15% were providing shower facilities, and more than half (54%) were providing free after-school clubs and help with transport.
(14) A “Dora the Explorer” stationery set jostles for space with a white plastic Christmas tree, crammed sideways into a box on the floor.
(15) Of those schools having to make savings, 49% said they were restricting the use of basic resources such as stationery.
(16) Purchasing books, stationery and equipment cost parents an average of £60 a child.
(17) If in the past Anderson has made esoteric references, including to J-cloths and stationery, his backstage explanation was strikingly simple this time.
(18) Palmer said: "Overall, the sectors that are most vulnerable include those affected by shoppers moving to online or digital formats, such as specialists in music, games, books, news and stationery along with the specialists that are most affected by the convenience and price-driven offering of the supermarkets, which includes chemists, health and beauty, and alcohol retailers."
(19) It is a great deal of money, but the MoJ never acknowledges that barristers earn fees, not salaries, and fees have to cover every cost incurred, from shoe leather to stationery to the hours spent in preparation.
(20) This former home of the HMSO government stationery department is one of Norwich's forgotten modernist icons – as is the Hollywood Cinema upstairs, which screened the premiere of Alpha Papa and where Alan himself declared "I love Norwich!"