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hard-wire en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
  2. To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.
  3. (broadly) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic.
    • "And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation. "You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation. 2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 34:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hard-wiring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hard-wired Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hard-wired Tense=Past lexicographic
hard-wires Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

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