(n.) One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
(n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women.
(n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
(3) A new carpet piece, Soft Ground (Great Hall), is being woven specially for the echoing double height great hall, Spencer-Churchill's favourite room.
(4) Verdict Phil Spencer promised games and he delivered lots and lots of games, some of them really rather beautiful to look at.
(5) Former Marks & Spencer boss Rose, chairman of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, was on Monday highlighting an analysis that claimed to show EU membership was worth an average of £670,000 in extra trade for each business that exports or imports goods within the bloc.
(6) Sainsbury's £1bn bid for Home Retail Group rejected Read more Sainsbury’s said the takeover would create the UK’s largest non-food retailer – ahead of John Lewis or Marks & Spencer – with about 2,000 stores and 100,000 products combined.
(7) June 19, 2014 7.39pm BST How Nouri al-Maliki fell out of favour with the US Here's new reportage and analysis from the Guardian's Martin Chulov ( @martinchulov ) and Spencer Ackerman ( @attackerman ).
(8) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
(9) A spokeswoman for Marks & Spencer said that while the firm had not seen a significant increase in applications this year for its management trainee scheme, which is open to entrants with two A-levels, competition remained intense; there are up to 3,000 applicants for just 30 places.
(10) But others do: gift cards for Amazon.co.uk, for example, expire one year from the date of issue, while Marks & Spencer gift cards are valid for four years, although each time a customer spends on the card the expiry date is reset to four years.
(11) GDP growth could be as high as 1% for the quarter, which would appear to justify comments by the Bank of England's chief economist, Spencer Dale, that growth is running at an annualised rate of 3-4%.
(12) You have to have internal expertise, you have to have some troops in the department able to interpret ministers’ words,” said Matthew Spencer, Green Alliance’s director.
(13) This paper represents an initial step in applying to complex clinical situations the symbolic logic developed by G. Spencer Brown and elaborated by Francisco Varela.
(14) Charles Spencer goes further: " The show's crowning glory is James Corden ," he writes in the Daily Telegraph.
(15) The Occupy protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral in London named their camp "Tahrir Square" while they sat cross-legged, sang songs and consumed Marks & Spencer sandwiches, oblivious to the obscenity of a comparison with freedom fighters who risked their lives in Egypt.
(16) None of the staff opted out of treating Spencer even though they were given an opportunity to do so.
(17) • They take action even if it may harm business Marks & Spencer's decision to charge for plastic bags, British Gas's encouragement of reduced use: these are not immediately obvious comfort zones for money-making enterprises.
(18) Clothing from its factories makes its way across the world, supplying big name brands in the west – from WalMart – the world's largest retailer (Asda is a subsidiary) – to high-street names like Tesco, Marks & Spencer and H&M.
(19) Spencer Thompson, the IPPR's senior economic analyst, said that while Britain's self-employed workforce "come in many shapes and sizes", some members of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee view the phenomenon as an indication of weakness in the labour market.
(20) Ben Altman Spencer, New York, USA • We believe the energy industry has been misrepresented in your article ( Big firms' gas bonanza threatens green energy , 21 April), which claims energy companies are lobbying governments and business to reject renewables in favour of natural gas.
Vest
Definition:
(n.) An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
(n.) Any outer covering; array; garb.
(n.) Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.
(n.) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
(n.) To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.
(n.) To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
(n.) To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.
(n.) To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.
(v. i.) To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(2) Cabrera, wearing a bulletproof vest, was paraded before the news media in what has become a common practice for law enforcement authorities following major arrests.
(3) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
(4) Endurance times with the vest were 300 min (175 W) and 242-300 min (315 W).
(5) First, there are major vested interests, such as large corporations, foreign billionaires and libel lawyers, who will attempt to scupper reform.
(6) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
(7) Neither SCV nor the vest techniques of CPR appear better for survival or neurologic outcome than standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed with the Thumper.
(8) Management intervention was identified as the cause of deterioration in four of 134 patients undergoing operative intervention, in three of 60 with skeletal traction application, in two of 68 with halo vest application, in two of 56 undergoing Stryker frame rotation, and in one of 57 undergoing rotobed rotation.
(9) We’re not part of the vested interests and we’ll never be part of the vested interests.
(10) Labour too had "sort of fallen to their knees obsequiously towards very powerful vested interests in the media", he said.
(11) At 175 W, subjects maintained a constant body temperature; at 315 W, the vest's ability to extend endurance is limited to about 5 hours.
(12) VEST-monitoring proved to be a reliable method that gave reproducible results: changes of ejection (EF) in basal conditions were lower than 5% in 95% of the patients.
(13) Mahmood had a vested interest in the prosecution against Contostavlos not collapsing due to any unfair entrapment by him, jurors were told.
(14) Treating voters like idiots doesn't often work – so the posters with a picture of a sick baby, saying, "She needs a new cardiac facility not an alternative voting system", or of the soldier, reading, "He needs bulletproof vests, not an alternative voting system", must surely be an insult too far to the public's intelligence.
(15) Vast discretion vested in NSA analysts The vast amount of discretion vested in NSA analysts is also demonstrated by the training and briefings given to them by the agency.
(16) A truly expert contracting group must be created that would be powerful enough to challenge departmental vested interests.
(17) (b) Positioning of patients for operation, including those with a halo vest, is efficiently carried out with safety and ease.
(18) Skull traction and a halo-vest were intermediate in patients with loss of motion, and the degree of loss of range was essentially equal.
(19) Jasmin Lorch, from the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, said: “If the military gets the feeling that its vested interests are threatened, it can always act as a veto player and block further reforms.” The New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the elections were fundamentally flawed, citing a lack of an independent election commission with its leader, chairman U Tin Aye, both a former army general and former member of the ruling party.
(20) The BBC interview also noted: "The foundation will also look at concerns that the web has become less democratic, and its use influenced too much by large corporations and vested interests".