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Lloyd

American  
[loid] / lɔɪd /

noun

  1. Welsh Legend. Llwyd.

  2. Harold (Clayton) 1894–1971, U.S. actor.

  3. (John) Selwyn (Brooke) 1904–78, British statesman.

  4. a male given name: from a Welsh word meaning “gray.”


Lloyd British  
/ lɔɪd /

noun

  1. Clive ( Hubert ). born 1944, West Indian (Guyanese) cricketer; played in 110 tests (1966–84), scoring 7,515 runs; captained the West Indies in 74 tests and to two World Cup wins (1975, 1979)

  2. Harold ( Clayton ). 1893–1971, US comic film actor

  3. Marie, real name Matilda Alice Victoria Wood. 1870–1922, English music-hall entertainer

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Ships using this route must pay a substantial fee, according to maritime data company Lloyd's List Intelligence, which invented its nickname.

From Barron's

So last year, Lloyd turned everything he knew about roster construction on its head.

From The Wall Street Journal

Almost half a million Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers saw other people's transactions or had their own data shared in a recent IT issue, the bank has revealed.

From BBC

At first, Barry Lloyd, from mid Wales, had no clue what to buy, getting most of his cards from eBay as the craze took off.

From BBC

Iran maintained what Lloyd’s List Intelligence called a tollbooth regime over the Strait of Hormuz as diplomatic efforts didn’t generate any tangible results.

From MarketWatch