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heavier-duty

heavier-duty is the comparative form of heavy-duty.

Meaning of heavy-duty

Adjective

heavy-duty (comparative heavier-duty, superlative heaviest-duty)

  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.1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222
    Antonyms:
    light-duty
  2. (informal) 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.2001 January 8, Michael Braga, “Prepackaged programming”, in The St. Petersburg Times

Questions about heavier-duty

What is heavier-duty the comparative form of?
Heavier-duty is the comparative form of heavy-duty.

Words near heavier-duty in the dictionary

  1. heaveth
  2. Heavey
  3. Heaveys
  4. heavied
  5. heavier
  6. heavier-duty
  7. heavier-handed
  8. heavier-than-air
  9. heavies
  10. heaviest
  11. heaviest-duty

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