(n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
(n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
(n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
(n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
(n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
(n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
(n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
(n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
(n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
(n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
(v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ukraine has said it needs $35 billion over the next two years to stave off bankruptcy.
(2) "They have staved off closure for a while but it did seem like they were flogging a dead horse and towards the end it did seem like the prices were really not attractive," said Jelensky, who said he preferred to buy online.
(3) Newspapers have been lobbying hard to stave off a Leveson law of any kind, arguing that the press is already subject to laws ranging from libel to data protection and computer misuse acts to guard against illegal activities.
(4) Hammond’s budget measures promised to stave off the looming crisis for Southwold – at least temporarily.
(5) On Monday, after months of intense talks with two US hedge funds, the Co-op Group – which also owns pharmacies, grocers and funeral homes – was forced to cede majority control of its bank as part of its battle to plug a £1.5bn capital shortfall and stave off nationalisation.
(6) Deep cuts to the US food stamps programme, designed to keep low-income Americans out of hunger in the aftermath of the economic recession, have forced increasing numbers of families such as theirs to rely on food banks and community organisations to stave off hunger.
(7) David Cameron should be instructing his ministers to back off councils because we already know there’s a huge funding gap in adult social care.” Cameron ‘buying off’ Tory MPs threatening to rebel over council cuts Read more Earlier this week, Oxfordshire county council received an extra £8.9m over two years as part of a government deal for rural counties in an attempt to stave off a potential backbench Tory rebellion at Westminster.
(8) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(9) On Friday, at the end of a week which saw the spectre of bankruptcy loom large over the ancient capital, the Italian government said it had approved a last-minute decree that would give an urgently-needed injection of funds to the city, thus staving off imminent disaster.
(10) The UN seeks $2.1bn to stave off the worst, while the UK alone has licensed more than £3.3bn of arms sales since the war began almost two years ago.
(11) Forage was ensiled in 10 900-kg concrete stave silos; 2 per year were assigned to one of five treatments consisting of control, treatment with an enzyme-chemical product, or treatment with one of three different types of lactic acid bacterial inoculants.
(12) It may help stave off a possible crisis of leadership in the event of the Dalai Lama's death.
(13) Uber has been given a boost in its attempts to stave off proposed changes to regulating the taxi trade in London , after the competition authority said the reforms would not serve the public interest.
(14) Along with Hytner's own production of the comedy One Man Two Guv'nors, it has staved off the financial difficulties that have troubled so many organisations in less commercial artforms since the government funding cuts of 2010.
(15) It is also evidence of a realisation that following the UN climate change talks in Paris the world is fast moving away from fossil fuels and towards low-carbon solutions in an attempt to stave off global warming.
(16) As we reported on November 24th 2010 : Trades unions brought parts of Portugal to a grinding halt as a general strike shut down most public transport in protest at cuts being introduced to stave off an Irish-style debt crisis.
(17) The company, which runs 1,270 shops, half of them in the UK, and employs 10,000 people worldwide, needs to raise around £180m to stave off collapse.
(18) The coming debate is about two things: what governments can do to attempt to regulate, or otherwise stave off, the now predictably terrifying consequences of global warming beyond 2C by the end of the century.
(19) Thames Water , one of seven companies in southern and eastern England that introduced restrictions on water use on 5 April, said the recent downpours may have staved off further curbs against drought but did not amount to "a long-term fix".
(20) Anything that comes out of the leadership of those two Committees that is labeled "NSA reform" is almost certain to be designed to achieve the opposite effect: to stave off real changes in lieu of illusory tinkering whose real purpose will be to placate rising anger.
Steve
Definition:
(v. t.) To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Future Forum is a group of 57 health sector specialists chaired by the Professor Steve Field, the former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
(2) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(3) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
(4) Contrary to the claims of some commentators, such as Steve Vladeck , it is impossible to argue reasonably that the memo imposed a requirement of "infeasibility of capture" on Obama's assassination power.
(5) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
(6) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
(7) One of those was Fon, an independent retailer in Sheffield run by Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell.
(8) It represents a rapid deterioration in relations since Monday when, previewing the Rotherham game, Karanka spoke of his “amazing” relationship with Steve Gibson, Boro’s owner, and everyone at the club.
(9) Colleagues involved in similar Telegraph stings this week included Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, Ed Davey, a business minister, and Steve Webb, the pensions minister.
(10) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
(11) Families like these are being abandoned to their fate and, as Steve Hynes of the Legal Action Group says: "These are often truly desperate people."
(12) The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
(13) However, he became surplus to requirements under Steve Bruce and followed Paulo da Silva and David Healy out of the Stadium of Light.
(14) "Weirdly, we sold it to lots of European countries where there's not only the issue about knowing who Steve and Rob are, but I assume all the impressions are slightly lost on them.
(15) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
(16) The #putyourwalletsout phrase was coined by Sydney-based Twitter user Steve Lopez, who accompanied it with a photo of his wallet.
(17) I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Owen, Sandy Stewart [Coyle's assistant] and Steve Davis [coach] for all their hard work during their time at Bolton Wanderers."
(18) Operations are ongoing,” a Pentagon spokesman, army colonel Steve Warren, confirmed on Wednesday afternoon.
(19) The Hull City manager, Steve Bruce , has admitted his side need to pull off a couple of “crazy results” if they are to preserve their Premier League status in a frantic end-of-season run-in.
(20) Douglas said 6Music still had "music at the heart of it - you would not have Steve Lamacq hosting drivetime unless music really, really mattered to the station".