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dieselise en · VERB

Etymology

From diesel + -ise.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dieselize.
   alt of dieselize
   • In the United States, where the railways are 90 per cent. dieselised today, diesel-electric power is the unvarying rule for independent locomotive units, and the only motive power exceptions are the highly successful 600-h.p. diesel-hydraulic railcars of the Budd "RDC" type, of which between 300 and 400 are now at work. 1958 April 14, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 268:
   • In conjunction, much freight traffic was to be dieselised under the W.R. scheme. 1963 January, Jeffrey P. Burke, “Railway crossroads of the north-west: Shrewsbury”, in Modern Railways, page 56:

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dieselisation