Thatcher

Definitions: Thatcher

Thatcher

Noun

1. British stateswoman; first woman to serve as Prime Minister (born in 1925).

2. Someone skilled in making a roof from plant stalks or foliage.

Date "Thatcher" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Occupations	A machine (similar to a rotary-type lawn mower with wire claws, rather than blades, on the rotating bar) used to claw and lift thatch from lawn. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Thatcher

Synonyms: Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven (n), Iron Lady (n), Margaret Hilda Thatcher (n), Margaret Thatcher (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Thatcher

English words defined with "Thatcher": Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven ♦ Hellier ♦ Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher ♦ Thacker. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Thatcher": LAWN-SERVICE WORKER ♦ SCULL THATCHER. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... (Citizen Kane; writing credit: Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles)
Movie/TV Titles	Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher (1989)
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Domain	Title
Books	Britain Under Thatcher (Seminar Studies in History) (reference) East Is East/a John Putnam Thatcher Mystery (reference) In Pursuit of British Interests: Reflections on Foreign Policy Under Margaret Thatcher and John Major (reference) Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (reference) Right on the Money: A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Point Craven. Point Thatcher. In: Pacific Coast Pilot Alaska Part I 1883. P. 166. Library call number VK943 .N3 1883.Credit: America's Coastlines.		A port side view of the after portion of the ship taken on 15 December 1943 at the Mare Island Navy Yard. The ship was completing repairs to severe battle damage incurred in July 1943. Changes to the anti-aircraft armament and boat stowage are circled. The covered lighter alongside is USS YF-535, an old craft acquired in 1942. The nearest destroyer in the background is USS Thatcher (DD-514).Credit: NAVY.
	George Thatcher and Carroll Johnson's Minstrels.Credit: Library of Congress.		Thatcher, Primrose & West's Minstrels.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Thatcher, Primrose & West's Minstrels.Credit: Library of Congress.		Thatcher, Primrose & West's Minstrels.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Nuclear waste : death dumps are safe, says Mrs. Thatcher : bury it under the House of Commons.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Margaret Thatcher	You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
	Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
	In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Uk	The Labour Government's Employment Relations Act of July 1999 rolled back most of the anti-union legislation enacted by previous Conservative Governments (1979-97), but retained many key labor-market reforms enacted by former Prime Minister Thatcher; the closed union shop and secondary boycotts remain outlawed. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Margaret Thatcher is one of the giants of our century.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Thatcher" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.70% of the time. "Thatcher" is used about 3,347 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	99.7%	3,337	2,867
Noun (singular)	0.3%	10	111,207
Total	100.00%	3,347	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Thatcher" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Thatcher	Last name	3,000	4,188
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Thatcher, AZ (town, FIPS 73420)
Location: 32.83835 N, 109.75904 W
Population (1990): 3763 (1263 housing units)
Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 85552
Country: USA

2. Thatcher, ID
Zip Code(s): 83283
Country: USA

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Expressions: Thatcher

Expressions using "Thatcher": Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven ♦ gorse thatcher ♦ Margaret Hilda Thatcher ♦ Margaret Thatcher. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Thatcher": Thatcher-and-after, Thatcher-bush, thatcher-devotees, thatcher-dominated, thatcher-era, thatcher-major, Thatcher-reagan, thatcher-style.
	Ending with "Thatcher": anti-thatcher, post-thatcher.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thatcher

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
margaret thatcher	326	mark thatcher	7
thatcher	134	terri thatcher	7
simpson thatcher	78	steve thatcher	7
denis thatcher	51	chemical thatcher	6
dennis thatcher	47	margaret quote thatcher	6
az thatcher	20	teri thatcher	6
denis sir thatcher	18	margaret minister prime thatcher	6
park thatcher	17	margaret minister next prime steps thatcher	6
margaret picture thatcher	17	becky showboat thatcher	4
margret thatcher	17	pharmaceutical thatcher	4
biography margaret thatcher	17	terry thatcher	4
thatcher school	13	iron lady margaret tank thatcher	4
becky thatcher	13	colin murder thatcher	4
lawn thatcher	12	company thatcher	4
manor thatcher	12	high school thatcher	4
lysa thatcher	12	david thatcher	4
corky thatcher	12	brook inn thatcher	4
thatcher arizona	10	thatcher wood	4
colin thatcher	8	park state thatcher	4
bartlett simpson thatcher	8	jeremy thatcher dragon hatcher	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Thatcher

Language		Translations for "Thatcher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�''切�". (various references)

Japanese Kanji		屋� �屋 (roofer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		やねや (roofer). (various references)

Manx		thooder. (various references)

Pig Latin		atcherthay

Vietnamese		thợ lợp tranh, thợ lợp rạ, thợ lợp lá. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Thatcher

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Thatcher": thatchers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Thatcher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Thacher. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Thatcher"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Thatcher" (pronounced tha"kher)
3	-a" kh er	catcher, dispatcher, Hatcher, snatcher, stature.
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Anagrams: Thatcher

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-h-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: chatter, hatcher, hatchet, ratchet.
	-2 letters: chetah, hatter, hearth, rachet, thatch, threat.
	-3 letters: caret, carte, cater, chare, chart, cheat, chert, cheth, crate, earth, hatch, hater, heart, heath, ratch, rathe, reach, react, recta, retch, tacet, tache, tater, teach, tecta, tetra, theca, theta, trace, tract, treat.
	-4 letters: ache, acre, arch, care, cart, cate, char, chat, each, eath.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-h-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: thatchers, thatchier.
	+4 letters: chrestomathy, hypothecator, tracheophyte.
	+5 letters: amphitheatric, featherstitch, heterothallic, hypothecators, phreatophytic, throatlatches, tracheophytes.
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