What's the difference between striker and striver?
Striker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.
(n.) A harpoon; also, a harpooner.
(n.) A wencher; a lewd man.
(n.) A workman who is on a strike.
(n.) A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(2) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(3) The striker missed the whole 2006-07 season but returned to make 35 appearances in 2007-08.
(4) The 79-year-old also described the Liverpool striker’s four-month suspension from all football , plus nine international matches and a £65,000 fine, as a “fascist ban”.
(5) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
(6) According to the striker in question, the Villa manager received more than he deserved.
(7) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
(8) "Hence, Ruud Geels, a striker, had a squad number of one while the goalkeeper Jan Jongbloed wore No8.
(9) Rémy has great ideas when the ball comes to him and along with Siem de Jong is going to improve an area where we definitely needed some help.” Newcastle are still in the market for an out-and-out striker and are working to find a replacement for Mathieu Debuchy before allowing Arsenal to sign the full-back.
(10) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
(11) However, when asked by a local journalist how a manager motivates players in a World Cup year, he did offer opinion on players, like the England striker, who find themselves potentially as a second-choice at club level.
(12) Henry had hinted during a recent interview with French newspaper L’Equipe he could be interested in a future coaching role with the Gunners, and Wenger insisted on Tuesday that Henry’s return is a certainty when asked about a reunion with the former France striker.
(13) The striker, who is Agnew’s nephew, joined Boro for £11m from Blackburn Rovers in January but Karanka has since struggled to find room for him in his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation and Rhodes has started only four of a possible eight games, scoring one goal.
(14) Strikers, Hobblers, Conchies and Reds: A Radical History of Bristol 1880-1939 (2014) As the cultural consensus in British society moved further and further to the right, it seemed that the efforts to create a wider, more democratically inclusive history from below had bitten the dust.
(15) Bruce decided another striker might now be necessary and replaced Sone Aluko with Abel Hernández, who immediately brought a save from Tom Heaton with an unconventional backheel.
(16) When, in stoppage time, the 33-year-old striker swept a first-time shot home any lingering Villa optimism was extinguished.
(17) The manager may feel that given Van Persie’s chequered injury record he requires another elite striker in Falcao.
(18) Kolo Touré: the lion-hearted loveable leader who is a triumph for tenacity | Paul Doyle Read more West Ham, who also saw a £31m bid for Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette rejected this week, are now expected to return with an improved offer for both players.
(19) "They supported me throughout the difficult times, and though I'm not a cryer I nearly did at that moment," the striker said.
(20) From now on I will treat them as they deserve: badly, with zero humanity.” Striker Zé Love: “The president speaks his mind.” Soundest philosophy Italy: Inter striker Mauro Icardi, reportedly sacking his agent of 10 years and replacing him with wife Wanda Nara, the ex-partner of former team-mate Maxi López .
Striver
Definition:
(n.) One who strives.
Example Sentences:
(1) September 12, 2013 Both the Conservatives and Labour are targetting the nation's toilers and strivers.
(2) Only those with very long memories could recall the former Labour health minister’s call in 2013 for the coalition government to drop “the strivers versus shirkers rhetoric” .
(3) Osborne faced close questioning from both wings of the party about the measures that some MPs fear will be seen to be hitting the “working strivers” that the Tories promised to help at the election.
(4) They say: "While the chancellor paints a picture of so-called 'strivers' and 'skivers', our organisations see the reality on the ground: families scraping by in low-paid work, or being bounced from insecure jobs to benefits and back again."
(5) I don’t believe the electorate will support making millions of strivers worse off.
(6) We urge all party leaders to tackle the deficit fairly, to repair the recent damage to the social security system and to cease misleading, and divisive, rhetoric such as “strivers” and “shirkers”.
(7) We have successfully divided up the bottom half of the population into scroungers and strivers.
(8) The truth is that, for all their rhetoric about making work pay or supporting strivers, it is working families and those in real need who are footing the bill for the government's catastrophic economic failure.
(9) The work and pensions secretary had claimed that his department's cap on benefits was turning scroungers into strivers – even before it had come into force.
(10) But such is the toxicity of the shirkers-versus-strivers message, delivered by all the leading political parties, that facts are no longer believed.
(11) But Morrison argued strivers – workers “going to work every day, backing themselves everyday” – as well as business owners, were worthy recipients of compensation as well.
(12) Osborne gloried in his depiction of his actions in support of the nation's "strivers" and attack on the shirkers.
(13) He loathed the way the chancellor framed arguments about benefits as “strivers versus shirkers”.
(14) To justify the cuts, the Tories are likely to employ a narrative of skivers v strivers, suggesting a clear division between a large, permanently welfare-dependent group and the rest of the population who pay taxes to support it.
(15) Millions of working families – “hard-working strivers”, as the Tories sometimes label them – are going to be significantly worse off, even with other measures taken into account.
(16) But the Tories have chosen to hit millions of working families on modest incomes again, while keeping their huge tax cut for millionaires.” Labour has regularly pointed out that cuts or freezes to working-age benefits penalise women and amount to a strivers’ tax on low-paid workers.
(17) Or in the parlance of the moment, "the strivers" v "the skivers".
(18) In George Osborne's dichotomy of strivers versus skivers, they fall on the government-approved side.
(19) But somehow or other we have got to reform the tax credit system.” Now austerity is hitting strivers, how will the Tories sell it?
(20) Since class 4 applies to those with annual profits of more than £8,060 a year, was this not an assault on the very strivers May had promised to champion?