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heavy-duty

heavy-duty adjective: designed to withstand hard usage without breaking; hard-wearing.

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
    • Summit still has to ... summit some final steps before it can start crunching heavy-duty science.2017 September 11, Matt Simon, “The Astonishing Engineering Behind America's Latest, Greatest Supercomputer”, in Wired

heavy-duty meaning in Tamil

heavy-duty in Tamil

பெரும்பணி

Antonyms of heavy-duty

Forms of heavy-duty

comparativeheavier-duty
superlativeheaviest-duty

Words formed from heavy-duty

Phrases with heavy-duty

Questions about heavy-duty

What does heavy-duty mean?
Heavy-duty means designed to withstand hard usage without breaking; hard-wearing.
What is heavy-duty in Tamil?
Heavy-duty in Tamil is பெரும்பணி. See Heavy-duty meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heavy-duty?
Heavy-duty is an adjective.

Words near heavy-duty in the dictionary

  1. heavy wet
  2. heavy wetter
  3. heavy wetters
  4. heavy with child
  5. heavy-browed
  6. heavy-duty
  7. heavy-duty vehicle
  8. heavy-duty vehicles
  9. heavy-faced
  10. heavy-foot
  11. heavy-footed

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