Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A borough of west-central England west-northwest of Birmingham. It had thriving iron, coal, and limestone industries until the 1870s.
- Thomas,English-born American colonial administrator who served as governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1634, 1640, 1645, and 1650) and as one of Harvard College's first overseers. His son Joseph (1647–1720) was also governor of Massachusetts (1702–1715).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An engine for hauling logs which propels itself and drags its load by revolving a large spool around which are several turns of a cable, fixed at each end of the track.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A town in the
West Midlands . - proper noun A
habitational surname , notably of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester at the time of Elizabeth I. - proper noun A male
given name , transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
Etymologies
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Examples
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From hence you pass by the Dudley brewery, and having ascended the hill, arrive at _Dudley, ten miles_.
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Otherwise "-- the passion in her voice kept it down to a whisper --" it's not only that I'm afraid he can make things look as if I stole from Dudley as well as from Van Ruyne: I'm afraid -- _for Dudley_! "
The La Chance Mine Mystery Susan Morrow Jones
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"If you're the board and you want the tension of a culture change and you also want continuity, then [Dudley] is not a bad compromise," said a former BP manager who has worked closely with the incoming CEO.
At BP, a High-Stakes Agenda Guy Chazan 2010
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Like most jocks, Dudley is not sensitive to the people in the grandstands.
Robert Lipsyte: Leave 'Em in the Locker Room: Pro Athletes Make Lousy Public Officials Robert Lipsyte 2010
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Dudley is as well positioned as anyone – and certainly better placed than Slough-born Hayward – to do this, not least because he speaks with a familiar southern-state inflection that plays well with the home crowd.
BP's new boss has to persuade America to stop hating his company Terry Macalister 2010
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"The measure of the challenge facing Dudley is that if in six months there's no change in the share price, BP will be highly vulnerable to an approach by Exxon or [Royal Dutch Shell PLC]," said a London oil and gas banker.
At BP, a High-Stakes Agenda Guy Chazan 2010
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Like most jocks, Dudley is not sensitive to the people in the grandstands.
Robert Lipsyte: Leave 'Em in the Locker Room: Pro Athletes Make Lousy Public Officials Robert Lipsyte 2010
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Like most jocks, Dudley is not sensitive to the people in the grandstands.
Robert Lipsyte: Leave 'Em in the Locker Room: Pro Athletes Make Lousy Public Officials Robert Lipsyte 2010
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Like most jocks, Dudley is not sensitive to the people in the grandstands.
Robert Lipsyte: Leave 'Em in the Locker Room: Pro Athletes Make Lousy Public Officials Robert Lipsyte 2010
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But now Dudley is dead, and very few people even remember that he was ever with Susan Anton.
PS 2009
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