(v. t.) To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chris Ratten, the firm's head of restructuring, said: "We expect this year to be worse, as those who have managed to teeter on the edge for the past few years will feel the full effects of the reduction of discretionary spending, fierce competition and reducing cash reserves.
Workman
Definition:
(n.) A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.
(n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alice Workman (@workmanalice) What's your favourite type of lettuce?
(2) Workman's facing Avila, gets him in a 1-2 count and then strikes him out to end the inning.
(3) Updated at 3.59am GMT 3.52am GMT DCL (@DCL9) " @NotCoachTito :"Brandon Doin' Work, Man" @LengelDavid "Tag this thing & bag it now.Let's get this one to make sure there's a game 6 in #Boston October 27, 2013 Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) Brandon Workman is coming to the plate batting for himself.
(4) Workman got exactly one out in the ninth inning before Farrell pulled him, so he effectively handed the Cardinals an out.
(5) The complexities and interferences in the doctor-patient relationship during the treatment of the compensably-injured workman create an unusually high incidence of delayed recovery, complications, and permanent disability.
(6) 3.45am BST Cardinals 4 - Red Sox 2, top of the 8th Brandon Workman, who does not come out to Rush's "Working Man" sadly, start the eighth.
(7) Of the 87 patients not receiving workman's compensation, 70 patients (80.5%) had marked improvement; four (4.6%) had slight improvement; and 13 (14.9%) had no improvement.
(8) And they took him by each arm and by each leg and laid him down on the table and the fifth one strapped him in.” Neither Workman nor Boone could remember the name of the man who resisted.
(9) "Employment growth is just not enough to cover the number of new entrants into the workforce," Workman said.
(10) Advisory board members Uwe Albrecht Managing partner, Siemens Venture Capital GmbH Peter Baines General partner, Advent Venture Partners Clennel Collingwood Investment manager, TTP Ventures Luciano Diana Head of Cleantech Energy Equity Research, Morgan Stanley Ben Goldsmith Partner, WHEB Ventures Alex Hook Investment manager, NESTA Bakhrom Ibragimov Principal, Virgin Green Fund Alok Jha Journalist, The Guardian Hamish Sandison Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP Patrick Sheehan Partner, Environmental Technologies Fund Felix von Schubert Partner, Zouk Ventures Adam Workman Investment partner, CT Investment Stephan Decher Founding partner, Clean Capital Jürgen Habichler Managing director, Mountain Cleantech Andrew Humphrey Clean energy analyst, Morgan Stanley Stuart McKnight Managing director, Ascendant Maurizio PetitBon General partner, Kreos Andreas von Richter GE Energy Financial Services Capital · Richard White is Senior Analyst at Library House
(11) During his employment with the corrections department, Workman said he never directly pushed the button during a lethal injection.
(12) Most notably, he left reliever Brandon Workman in the game to hit for himself, he struck out on three pitches in his first at-bat at any professional level, so he could come back to pitch the ninth of what was by then a 4-4 tie.
(13) Randy Workman saw intimate details of the death penalty that are kept from the public eye in the United States.
(14) That brings out Sox manager John Farrell to get his man, Workman is done for the night and starter Felix Doubront will make a relief appearance and face Prince Fielder.
(15) Workman thought Alverson had matured during more than a decade in prison: his time was productive, and he spoke to children to try to sway them from a life of crime, Workman said.
(16) Commonwealth Bank senior economist Michael Workman put the lower unemployment rate down to the fall in the participation rate.
(17) Speedy Ortiz play Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 19 May; The Workman's Club, Dublin, 20 May; Exchange, Bristol, 21 May; Electrowerkz, EC1, 22 May
(18) 3.55am BST Tigers 2 - Red Sox 1, top of the 7th Workman gets Infante to fly out for the first out of the 7th, Farrell gets Breslow and Tazawa working.
(19) The authors present the clinical course of a 48 year old workman who developed a progressively extending pain, after having wounded his left second finger with a metallic rod at work.
(20) Commonwealth Bank of Australia senior economist Michael Workman said soft investment outside the mining sector had probably been a key factor in the RBA’s decision.