Jameson

American

[jeym-suhn] / ˈdʒeɪm sən /

noun

Sir Leander Starr Doctor Jameson, 1853–1917, Scottish physician and statesman: colonial administrator in South Africa.

Jameson British

/ ˈdʒeɪmsən /

noun

Sir Leander Starr. 1853–1917, British administrator in South Africa, who led an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime (the Jameson Raid ); prime minister of Cape Colony (1904–08)

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Jameson said he’d likely never be able to buy his own house in San Rafael, where the typical home costs about $1.2 million, according to Zillow.

From The Wall Street Journal

For Jameson Norris, Cheryl Norris’s 35-year-old son who works gig jobs like ride-share driving, the prospect of inheriting his mom’s homes with his sister is both a relief and humbling.

From The Wall Street Journal

Anna Jameson, a 22-year-old retail worker from Maltby, South Yorkshire, said zero-hours contracts had left her with "constantly fluctuating hours and wages", and that "you never know what your pay will be at the end of the month".

From BBC

“Greenland offers a density of critical natural resources that is virtually unmatched,” says Robert Price, CEO of the Texas-based oil-drilling company March GL, which is looking to extract oil from Greenland’s Jameson Land basin.

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