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Dieselgate

Dieselgate proper noun: the Volkswagen emissions scandal of 2015.

Proper noun

Dieselgate

  1. (informal) The Volkswagen emissions scandal of 2015.
    • Volkswagen says it’s eager to talk about the future rather than rehash the scandal. But ignoring Dieselgate has proved impossible. Two weeks before Fortune’s visit to Wolfsburg, German prosecutors had levied a billion-euro penalty (about $1.17 billion) against Volkswagen for Dieselgate, one of the...2018 July 23, Vivienne Walt, “Volkswagen Races to Put ‘Dieselgate’ in the Rear View”, in Fortune, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2018
    Synonyms:
    Emissionsgate

Synonyms of Dieselgate

Origin of Dieselgate

From diesel + -gate.

Questions about Dieselgate

What does Dieselgate mean?
Dieselgate means the Volkswagen emissions scandal of 2015.
What part of speech is Dieselgate?
Dieselgate is a proper noun.

Words near Dieselgate in the dictionary

  1. diesel-hydraulic
  2. diesel-hydraulics
  3. diesel-powered
  4. dieseldom
  5. dieseled
  6. Dieselgate
  7. dieseline
  8. dieselines
  9. dieseling
  10. dieselisation
  11. dieselisations

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