Leverhulme
[ lee-ver-hyoom or, often, -yoom ]
/ ˈli vərˌhyum or, often, -ˌyum /
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noun
Viscount William Hesketh Lever, 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer, originator of an employee profit-sharing plan, and founder of a model industrial town.
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Words nearby Leverhulme
lever action, leverage, leveraged buyout, lever escapement, leveret, Leverhulme, Leverkusen, Leverrier, Levertov, lever tumbler, Lévesque
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How to use Leverhulme in a sentence
But after the Leverhulme-John episode we ought to have been told whose was the happy idea, the artist's or the sitter's?
I would not have the reader to suppose that I consider Lord Leverhulme a heaven-sent genius of statesmanship.
The Mirrors of Downing Street|Harold BegbieI saw Lord Leverhulme on several occasions at the end of the war.
The Mirrors of Downing Street|Harold BegbieAre you suffering from that Leverhulme six-hour-working-day sort of feeling?
Living Alone|Stella Benson
British Dictionary definitions for Leverhulme
Leverhulme
/ (ˈliːvəˌhjuːm) /
noun
William Hesketh, 1st Viscount. 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer and philanthropist, who founded (1881) the model industrial town Port Sunlight
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