(v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]
Example Sentences:
Reeve
Definition:
(n.) The female of the ruff.
(v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
(n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rachel Reeves, shadow chief secretary of the Treasury, said: "This doesn't feel like a safe haven to families and businesses and young people.
(2) The shadow work and pensions secretary, Rachel Reeves, said the 49% rise revealed “the Tory plan is failing”.
(3) "Decisions are being rushed, communities are not consulted or compensated and the lure of money from cutting emissions is overiding everything," says Rosalind Reeve of forestry watchdog group Global Witness.
(4) As there is no surer sign of things going hideously wrong than Duncan Smith trumpeting his brilliance, Reeves felt it as well to probe a little deeper.
(5) Reeves needs both hardness of head and kindness of heart, without trimming her messages to please difficult audiences.
(6) But it’s optimistic to imagine that such action would dispel all the rage MPs such as Reeves are encountering every day.
(7) It can't hurt, either, that he's kept the faith with a group of friends who, in some cases, go back to his Super 8 days: Cloverfield director Reeves, cinematographer Larry Fong, production partner Bryan Burk.
(8) Photograph: Barcroft Media Newsnight's new editor, former Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz, also has form with the comic sidestep after his Twitter "snoring, boring" gaffe about Rachel Reeves.
(9) The membrane preparation, isolated by the Reeves and Sutko's method, was purified ninefold over homogenates as judged from the results of measurements of (Na+K+)-ATPase and K+-p-nitrophenylphosphatase activities, sialic acid, and cholesterol.
(10) Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, and Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, led a shadow cabinet fightback in support of Miliband on Friday night.
(11) The cmlB locus, determining increased resistance to the antibiotics chloramphenicol and tetracycline, also lies in this region (Reeve, 1966).
(12) "What I do is listen a lot during a session and try to pick up some little something from the musicians that might make the record more commercial" - a guitar lick by Hank Garland, perhaps, or a clipped piano figure from Floyd Cramer, whose Last Date (1960) was one of Atkins' early successes, along with Jim Reeves' He'll Have To Go (1959) and Skeeter Davis's The End of the World (1963).
(13) To accumulate phylogenetic information on the central histaminergic system, we investigated the histaminergic system in the brain of the Reeves turtle, Chinemys reevesii, using the indirect immunofluorescent method with antiserum against histamine.
(14) On the broader costs of social security, Reeves says that the government is failing to control costs because it does not grasp the adverse effects that falling wages and rising rents are having in pushing up the welfare bill.
(15) Labour will be tougher than the Tories when it comes to slashing the benefits bill, Rachel Reeves, the new shadow work and pensions secretary, has insisted in her first interview since winning promotion in Ed Miliband's frontbench reshuffle .
(16) Study has been made of the effects of a variety of metabolic inhibitors and divalent cations (Ni2+ and Mn2+), normally after 5 min exposure, on the biphasic uptake of inorganic phosphate (Pi) exhibited by phosphate-deprived cells of Escherichia coli, strains AB3311 (Reeves met-) and CBT302 (a (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase-deficient mutant).
(17) A simple model is used to explore the extent to which the uniquely comprehensive studies of western equine encephalomyelitis in Kern County, California, by Reeves and his colleagues over many years, explain the dynamics and epidemiology of the infection.
(18) Rachel Reeves , the shadow work and pensions secretary, said she had not seen the briefing document, but its length and detail underlines how seriously the party is taking the Ukip threat.
(19) Keiron Reeves, 29, who treating severe epilepsy with cannabis oil, said: "I feel much healthier and more confident in addressing everyday tasks like washing, shopping, tidying, all those things most people take for granted.
(20) Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said Labour would support proposals upholding the principle that "you have to pay something in before you get something out".