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In some senses, heavy-duty is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
heavy-duty
adj 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
commercial, mounted
VERB + HEAVY-DUTY
crunching, handle, start
HEAVY-DUTY + NOUN
b, flashlight, machine, r, science, skills, truck, trucks
PREP.
on
ADV.
such, such
Definitions
adj
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.
2
Very serious, intense, or demanding.
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.
Summit still has to ... summit some final steps before it can start crunching heavy-duty science.
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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.
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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 e
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Summit still has to ... summit some final steps before it can start crunching heavy-duty science.
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Heavy-duty vehicles (commercial trucks, vans, and buses) are currently the second largest source of greenhouse gas pollution within the transportation sector.
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This is a heavy-duty machine.
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Sami had a heavy-duty flashlight.
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