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heavy-duty

adj

Definitions

  1. Designed to withstand hard usage without breaking

    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.

  2. Very serious, intense, or demanding.

    • Summit still has to ... summit some final steps before it can start crunching heavy-duty science.
    • No matter how great a football prospect is, they’re often only gradually exposed to the rigors of heavy-duty competition.

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Derived

heavy-duty vehicle

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