Macmillan

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[ muhk-mil-uhn ]

noun

1. Harold, 1894–1986, British statesman: prime minister 1957–63.

MacMillan

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[ muhk-mil-uhn ]

noun

1. Donald Bax·ter [bak, -ster], 1874–1970, U.S. Arctic explorer.

Macmillan

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/ məkˈmɪlən /

noun

1. Macmillan(Maurice) Harold, 1st Earl of Stockton18941986MBritishPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister ( Maurice ) Harold, 1st Earl of Stockton. 1894–1986, British statesman; Conservative prime minister (1957–63)

MacMillan

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noun

1. MacMillanJames (Loy)1959MScottishMUSIC: composerMUSIC: conductor James ( Loy ). born 1959, Scottish composer and conductor; his works include two symphonies, the orchestral work Confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990), and the operas Ines de Castro (1996) and The Sacrifice (2007)
2. MacMillanSir Kenneth19291992MBritishDANCE: choreographerDANCE: dancerDANCE: director Sir Kenneth. 1929–92, British choreographer, dancer, and ballet director; chief choreographer for the Royal Ballet from 1970

Example Sentences

List’s and MacMillan’s work prompted others to seek out more organic catalysts and to study how they might be used.

From Science News For Students

So MacMillan designed small carbon-based molecules — organic molecules — that mimicked the metals’ catalytic action.

From Science News For Students

MacMillan saw an incoming call from Sweden and ignored it, thinking it was a student playing a Nobel-day prank.

From Washington Post

Greg Scholes, a friend of MacMillan’s and chair of the department of chemistry at Princeton, said MacMillan’s wife woke Wednesday morning and told him to turn his phone off because it kept buzzing.

From Washington Post

MacMillan designed small organic molecules that mimicked the catalytic action of metals in a simpler way, while also favoring the production of one of two possible mirror images of the final product.

From Science News

Copyright © 2014 by the author and reprinted by permission of Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin's Press, LLC.

From The Daily Beast

Then she shoves MacMillan in the chest and exits stage left.

From The Daily Beast

Instead, MacMillan has the temerity to issue a caveat mid-thrust.

From The Daily Beast

It merged into what was then called Macmillan, and disappeared, as did the imprint it merged into.

From The Daily Beast

John Sargent, the CEO of Macmillan, today published a letter insisting that he did not act illegally, and there was no collusion.

From The Daily Beast

Ordered South appeared in Macmillan for that same April, and in its very beauty there is a most painful pathos.

From Project Gutenberg

(Macmillan & Bowles), has just come from the press, it is fashionable to say that he follows after Calverley, at some distance.

From Project Gutenberg

Macmillan's Magazine (Nov., 1870), "Sad-colored costumes," ii.

From Project Gutenberg

The ease and grace of style common to all Dr. Macmillan's writings are palpable in this volume.

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I have to thank both him and Mr. Macmillan for the obliging promptness with which my request was granted.

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