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lighthouse | American Dictionary

lighthouse
noun[ C ]
us/ˈlɑɪtˌhɑʊs/plurallighthousesus/ˈlɑɪtˌhɑʊ·zəz, -səz/
a tall structure by the sea with a flashing light that warns ships of dangerous rocks or shows them the way into a port

Examples of lighthouse

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As a result of this complicated history, there were three types of private ownership of lighthouses.
Nevertheless, lighthouse reform enabled the whigs and radicals to pose as crusaders against local monopolies which the tories sought to perpetuate.
The advocates of lighthouse reform were thus not merely attacking corruption, they were attacking the very existence of private property in a public service.
There may be setup costs to build a lighthouse with the capacity to protect vessels moving at a given speed.
The state had to determine the legitimacy of the competing claims of lighthouse owners, pensioners, and shipowners to the property of the tolls.
The principle is similar to the use of lighthouses in marine navigation.
Now imagine that this light goes off and one comes on at the lighthouse.
Underpinning lighthouse reform, therefore, was a criticism of the willingness of government to make private property out of a public resource.
After 1815, despite the depression, most lighthouses were still generating large surpluses.
The private interests of the lighthouse proprietors could then be contrasted with the broader public interest which private ownership was said to damage.
The strategy was to imagine they were a lighthouse, to scan fully left and right, using eye and head turning.
This survey has never covered the under-researched history of the lighthouse.
To eliminate these failings, the demand grew that lighthouses should be centralized under a single public authority.
This was true not only of lighthouse reform, but of charity, borough, corporation, and tithe reform.
To understand the complexity of the concept of private property in lighthouses, a brief survey of the history of lighthouses is essential.
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