Wagner

[wag-ner, vahg-ner, vahg-nuhr]

noun

1. Honus John Peter, 1874–1955, U.S. baseball player.

2. Otto 1841–1918, Austrian architect.

3. Richard 1813–83, German composer.

4. Robert F(erdinand), 1877–1953, U.S. politician.

5. his son Robert F(erdinand), Jr., 1910–91, U.S. politician: mayor of New York City 1954–65.

Wagner

/ ˈvɑːɡnə /

noun

1. Otto. 1841–1918, Austrian architect, whose emphasis on function and structure in such buildings as the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna (1904–06), influenced the development of modern architecture

2. ( Wilhelm ) Richard (ˈrɪçart). 1813–83, German romantic composer noted chiefly for his invention of the music drama. His cycle of four such dramas The Ring of the Nibelung was produced at his own theatre in Bayreuth in 1876. His other operas include Tannhäuser (1845; revised 1861), Tristan and Isolde (1865), and Parsifal (1882)

Example Sentences

Prosecutor Duncan Penny KC said Earl also "sought to pay a person identifying as a serving UK soldier" for intelligence for the Russian mercenary Wagner Group.

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And in July three men were found guilty an arson attack on a Ukraine-linked warehouse in London that was carried out after they were recruited by the Russian Wagner mercenary group.

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"It's all about risk trade-offs when you look at solar geoengineering," says Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at the Columbia Business School and a close collaborator with the Climate School.

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That approach influenced the 1935 Wagner Act, which established the National Labor Relations Board, and other New Deal policies.

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Moscow both overestimated the Wagner Group’s strength as a power in Africa, now in shambles, and underestimated its potential to threaten the Russian government, as it did with an aborted coup.

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