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workhorses

workhorses is the plural of workhorse.

Meaning of workhorse

Noun

workhorse (plural workhorses)

  1. A horse used primarily for manual labor; a draft/draught horse.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) A person or piece of equipment that performs a lot of work, especially one heavily relied upon to perform consistently and regularly.
    • Those old machines are not very glamorous, but even 20 years after their introduction, they are still the workhorses of the industry.

Questions about workhorses

What is workhorses the plural of?
Workhorses is the plural of workhorse.

Words near workhorses in the dictionary

  1. workhands
  2. workholding
  3. workhome
  4. workhomes
  5. workhorse
  6. workhorses
  7. workhour
  8. workhours
  9. workhouse
  10. workhoused
  11. workhouses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: workhorses (page history and authors); workhorse (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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