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blackbelt

blackbelt is the alternative form of black belt.

Meaning of black belt

Noun (1)

black belt (plural black belts)

  1. The highest belt colour in various martial arts.
    Synonyms:
    dan
  2. Someone who has attained the black belt in martial arts.
    • Raymond is a black belt in karate.
    Synonyms:
    dan
  3. (colloquial, figuratively) Great skill in any field.
  4. A senior manager who is expert in one of various management systems such as Six Sigma or DMAIC and acts in a project leader or mentor role.
    • I had the good fortune of being engaged to participate as a trainer to GE Capital Corporation, where we helped to launch their now well-known and highly regarded black belt program.2011, Bob Paladino, Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management, →ISBN

Noun (2)

black belt (plural black belts)

  1. (Southern, US) A geographic region where the residents are predominantly or exclusively African-American.
    • Bernard Cosman found that in Georgia, it was the black belt whites who gave Goldwater his largest percentage of the vote.1992, Hanes Walton, The Native Son Presidential Candidate: The Carter Vote in Georgia, →ISBN, page 5
  2. A roughly crescent-shaped geological formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States.
    • The Black Belt region, also called the Black Prairie, extends 300 miles across central Alabama and northeast Mississippi and into Tennessee. […] The dark soil for which the Black Belt was named was once famous for its richness and the abundant cotton produced in it.2014, Richard Pillsbury, editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, volume 2, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 157

Forms of blackbelt

pluralblackbelts

Questions about blackbelt

What is blackbelt the alternative form of?
Blackbelt is the alternative form of black belt.

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