Hobson

American  

[hob-suhn] / ˈhɒb sən /

noun

1. Laura Z(ametkin) 1900–86, U.S. novelist.

2. Richmond Pearson 1870–1937, U.S. naval officer and politician.

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Example Sentences

He laments the use of fixed penalty notices, in which offenders are offered the Hobson’s choice of paying minor fines or fighting criminal offenses for a litany of “anti-social behaviors.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“This circumstance presents noncitizens in removal proceedings with a Hobson’s choice between two irreparable harms,” Judge P. Casey Pitts wrote in his Christmas Eve decision.

From Los Angeles Times

Hermanson: Independent evolution of quadrupedal locomotion Front-wheel drive in the bounding gait of vampire bats; Gerald G. Carter, Simon P. Ripperger, Vi Girbino, M. May Dixon, Imran Razik, Rachel A. Page, Elizabeth A. Hobson: Long-term cooperative relationships among vampire bats are not strongly predicted by their initial interactions.

From Slate

And her first big screen roles came a year later - in romantic comedy, Laxdale Hall, and David Lean's Hobson's Choice, opposite Charles Laughton.

From BBC

The union’s Monday complaint also alleges that Starbucks, by lobbying for the Olympics deal, created a possible conflict of interest, because a prominent former member of Starbucks’ board, Mellody Hobson, also serves on the board of LA28, the organizing committee for the Summer Games.

From Los Angeles Times