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heavy-duty en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. Designed to withstand hard usage without breaking; hard-wearing.
   • The cars are constructed to the normal B.R. standard coach specifications and mounted on heavy-duty B.R.2 type bogies with B.T.R. rubber vibro-insulators on the bearing springs. 1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222:
2. (informal) Very serious, intense, or demanding.
   • Summit still has to ... summit some final steps before it can start crunching heavy-duty science. 2017 September 11, Matt Simon, “The Astonishing Engineering Behind America's Latest, Greatest Supercomputer”, in Wired:
   • Stewart has 18 years of programming experience, and he's one of only a handful of people at the St. Petersburg computer consulting company who can handle such heavy-duty programming. Such skills can earn a programmer of Stewart's caliber about $70,000 a year. 2001 January 8, Michael Braga, “Prepackaged programming”, in The St. Petersburg Times:
   • No matter how great a football prospect is, they’re often only gradually exposed to the rigors of heavy-duty competition. 2021 October 8, Joel Drucker, “In an All-American battle, Anisimova shows Scott the ropes”, in Tennis:

Forms

Antonyms

light-duty

Coordinates

medium-duty

Deriveds

heavy-duty vehicle

Hypernyms

duty

Relateds

industrial-strength · heavy duty

Translations (12)

bg мощен (designed to withstand hard usage) · tr mukavemetli (designed to withstand hard usage) · de hochleistungsfähig (designed to withstand hard usage) · cmn 繁重的 (very serious, intense, or demanding) · cmn 激烈的 (very serious, intense, or demanding) · cmn 耐用的 (designed to withstand hard usage) · fi tukeva (designed to withstand hard usage) · tr dayanıklı (designed to withstand hard usage) · de strapazierfähig (designed to withstand hard usage) · fi kova (very serious, intense, or demanding) · fi raskas (designed to withstand hard usage) · bg високопроизводителен (designed to withstand hard usage)