Gresham

[gresh-uhm]

noun

1. Sir Thomas, 1519?–79, English merchant and financier.

2. a town in NW Oregon.

Gresham

/ ˈɡrɛʃəm /

noun

1. Sir Thomas. ?1519–79, English financier, who founded the Royal Exchange in London (1568)

Example Sentences

“There will be someone in CrowdStrike who will be in a lot of trouble right now for not getting this right,” observes Prof Victoria Baines, from Gresham College in London.

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Ted Sester, who owns a wholesale nursery in Gresham, Oregon, said it was “full of heavy-handed enforcement and regulatory overreach.”

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"It's not a threshold beyond which climate change will spin out of control," says Prof Myles Allen of the University of Oxford and Gresham College, and a lead author of the UN's landmark 2018 report.

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The incentives include $90 million to improve a plant in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and $72 million to expand a factory in Gresham, Oregon, the Commerce Department said.

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Sir James previously donated £18.75m to Gresham's for a new building and said he was "forever grateful for the generosity" the school had shown him.

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