Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device used for pulling the ends of a belt together when they are to be laced or cemented. Clamps are attached to the ends of the belt, and are then drawn together by screws.
- noun An idle or independent pulley resting on a machine-belt, and tending by its weight to keep the belt stretched, thus securing better adhesion.
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Examples
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So perhaps MPs will do better in prising from the great belt-tightener an explanation as to how Capita was paid £580,000 for 16 months' work by an official supplied to his department to serve as interim finance chief.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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How can the new man of golden china, erstwhile belt-tightener of the "PIGS" Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain not turn out to be, when the time comes, the objective ally of "liberal order"?
Bernard-Henri Lévy: In Cairo. DSK's Golden China. A Film on Sollers. My Friend Dollé. The Jardin Case. Whither Pakistan? Ahab or Musil? Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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How can the new man of golden china, erstwhile belt-tightener of the "PIGS" Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain not turn out to be, when the time comes, the objective ally of "liberal order"?
Bernard-Henri Lévy: In Cairo. DSK's Golden China. A Film on Sollers. My Friend Dollé. The Jardin Case. Whither Pakistan? Ahab or Musil? Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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How can the new man of golden china, erstwhile belt-tightener of the "PIGS" Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain not turn out to be, when the time comes, the objective ally of "liberal order"?
Bernard-Henri Lévy: In Cairo. DSK's Golden China. A Film on Sollers. My Friend Dollé. The Jardin Case. Whither Pakistan? Ahab or Musil? Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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Like many folks, this year has been a bit of a belt-tightener.
August 17th, 2009 madkestrel 2009
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How can the new man of golden china, erstwhile belt-tightener of the "PIGS" Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain not turn out to be, when the time comes, the objective ally of "liberal order"?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards, is another belt-tightener; and a powerful one.
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For the metrosexual belt-tightener: The man girdle
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