Clive

[ klahyv ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Robert Baron Clive of Plassey, 1725–74, British general and statesman in India.
a male given name, form of Cleve.

Clive

/ klaɪv /

CliveRobert17251774MBritishMILITARY: generalPOLITICS: statesman Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey. 1725–74, British general and statesman, whose victory at Plassey (1757) strengthened British control in India

On a visit to his friend Clive, a country squire, he meets Alec, Clive’s game keeper.

Knowing that he has to do some type of work, Alec becomes a gamekeeper for Clive, a country squire.

"Clive has had a fantastic and distinguished career so we listen to what he has to say," he said.

And then the experience of working with Clive Davis was a great one.

I knew Clive casually, and I knew a lot of people who worked with him.

“I will be supporting Clive Bundy and his family from Federal Government slaughter,” he wrote.

As he shared on Facebook: I will be supporting Clive Bundy and his family from Federal Government slaughter.

Messieurs Gosling and Clive are instructed to obey your commands whenever you please to send them.

Clive faced the mutiny successfully; he cashiered the leaders and accepted the submission of the younger men.

The king, while fully acknowledging Clive's services, thought him guilty of "rapine," and disapproved of his virtual acquittal.

Hastings returned from India at the close of the war with the hope of rewards as great as those of Clive.

Whilst on this subject I must confess to a lapse of memory in respect of what Clive Row was like at that particular period.

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