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forklifts

forklifts is the plural of forklift.

forklifts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forklift.

Meaning of forklift

Noun

forklift (plural forklifts)

  1. A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved.
    • The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2025
    Synonyms:
    fork hoist, forklift truck, fork truck, hi-lo, jitney, lift truck, sideloader, stacker-truck, tow-motor, trailer loader

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Questions about forklifts

What is forklifts the plural of?
Forklifts is the plural of forklift.

Words near forklifts in the dictionary

  1. forkliftable
  2. forklifted
  3. forklifter
  4. forklifters
  5. forklifting
  6. forklifts
  7. forklike
  8. forkload
  9. forkloads
  10. forkmaker
  11. forkmakers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forklifts (page history and authors); forklift (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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