How To Use commissionaire In A Sentence
- It converts its German distributor to a stripped-risk intermediary called a commissionaire to limit what would otherwise be sales margins taxable in Germany. Transfer Pricing As Tax Avoidance
- Many of the traditions survive in the modern firm: liveried commissionaires still take visitors' soggy umbrellas and hand them back, dried and furled, when they leave.
- It is impressive both in terms of its collection and its architecture but the moment that impressed me the most was the privilege of chatting with a commissionaire as I stopped by the entrance to the main exhibits area.
- 'commissionaire' of the hotel -- I don't know what a 'commissionaire' is, but that is the man we went to -- and told him we wanted a guide. The Innocents Abroad — Volume 02
- Several of our guests thought that he was a hired commissionaire!
- A margate is a particular kind of commissionaire who sees you every day and is on cheerful Christian-name terms with you, then one day refuses to let you in because you've forgotten your identify card. The Meaning of Liff
- Just to round off my walk, the commissionaire, a white-Cuban chap with the physical presence of an elephant, challenged me at the entrance to my hotel: ‘Que quiere?’
- To access the elevator he had to collect an electronic tag from the commissionaire, who punched in its encoded number.
- The mistake was made because the usual commissionaire was unavailable to raise the flag on that particular day.
- In my father's day it was much more of a command culture, commissionaires signing people in, priority for directors in the lifts.
