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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling an assembly line.

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Examples

  • This was the beginning of what would be called assembly-line work.

    Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

  • This was the beginning of what would be called assembly-line work.

    Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

  • Mr. Han and a team of other officials from Washington and Seoul have taken their pitch to berry growers and racehorse breeders, immigrant merchants and assembly-line employees in an unusual effort to build public support for one of President Barack Obama's maiden trade pacts.

    Envoy Hits the Road for Trade Deal Elizabeth Williamson 2011

  • And it has engendered the gradual WALL-E-fication of our culture, in which the larger goal becomes the creation of passive consumers whose assembly-line work environments -- be they the actual assembly line or the assembly-esque world of modern office work -- can only be cured by the illusory freedom we exercise when we choose different products to purchase.

    Sam Chaltain: Don't Believe the Hype (About College) Sam Chaltain 2011

  • Is the fact that Chihuly's work would "match EMP very well" an indictment of the EMP's Gehry-knocking-off-Gehry architecture, Chihuly's assembly-line art, or both?

    Columbia Center Owners Miss Mortgage Payment « PubliCola 2010

  • But companies estimate it is anywhere from 10% to 30% cheaper to build a modular data center, in part because of the assembly-line like approach.

    Data Centers Boom Ben Worthen 2011

  • And it has engendered the gradual WALL-E-fication of our culture, in which the larger goal becomes the creation of passive consumers whose assembly-line work environments -- be they the actual assembly line or the assembly-esque world of modern office work -- can only be cured by the illusory freedom we exercise when we choose different products to purchase.

    Sam Chaltain: Don't Believe the Hype (About College) Sam Chaltain 2011

  • And it has engendered the gradual WALL-E-fication of our culture, in which the larger goal becomes the creation of passive consumers whose assembly-line work environments -- be they the actual assembly line or the assembly-esque world of modern office work -- can only be cured by the illusory freedom we exercise when we choose different products to purchase.

    Sam Chaltain: Don't Believe the Hype (About College) Sam Chaltain 2011

  • And it has engendered the gradual WALL-E-fication of our culture, in which the larger goal becomes the creation of passive consumers whose assembly-line work environments -- be they the actual assembly line or the assembly-esque world of modern office work -- can only be cured by the illusory freedom we exercise when we choose different products to purchase.

    Sam Chaltain: Don't Believe the Hype (About College) Sam Chaltain 2011

  • He looked like a senator and yet his films were done in such an assembly-line way.

    Roger Corman: Scorsese, Stallone, Sayles, and other A-listers talk about the B-movie king | EW.com 2009

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