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working horses

working horses is the plural of working horse.

Meaning of working horse

Noun

working horse (plural working horses)

  1. (figuratively, non-native speakers' English) Synonym of workhorse (“someone or something that does a lot of work”).
    • Since the introduction of ultrasound in cardiology in the mid fifties, echocar­diography has continued to grow and has finally become, in particular after the introduction of Doppler modalities, the working horse of the cardiologist.1990, C.A. Visser, “Foreword”, in J.P.M. Hamer, Practical Echocardiography in the Adult: with Doppler and Color-Doppler Flow Imaging, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →DOI, →ISBN, page x
    Synonyms:
    workhorse

Questions about working horses

What is working horses the plural of?
Working horses is the plural of working horse.

Words near working horses in the dictionary

  1. working girls
  2. working group
  3. working groups
  4. working hard or hardly working
  5. working horse
  6. working horses
  7. working hours
  8. working hypotheses
  9. working hypothesis
  10. working in
  11. working into the ground

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