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coal-fired

coal-fired adjective: fired or ignited with coal.

Adjective

coal-fired (not comparable)

  1. Fired or ignited with coal.
    • a coal-fired electric power station
    • Children playing basketball at their home in front of the John Amos coal-fired power plant in Poca, W.Va. President Biden’s infrastructure plan includes climate change measures that aim to close coal-fired plants.2021 May 12, Emily Cochrane, “In Infrastructure Talks With Biden, Capito Faces Fraught Path to Deal”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2021

Forms of coal-fired

alternative formcoalfired

Questions about coal-fired

What does coal-fired mean?
Coal-fired means fired or ignited with coal.
What part of speech is coal-fired?
Coal-fired is an adjective.

Words near coal-fired in the dictionary

  1. coal trains
  2. coal worker's pneumoconiosis
  3. coal-based
  4. coal-bearing
  5. coal-black
  6. coal-fired
  7. coal-hole
  8. coal-holes
  9. coal-meter
  10. coal-meters
  11. coal-rolled

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