Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
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Examples
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A milder-than-normal winter has curbed weather-driven heating demand this winter, sending prices plunging to 10-year lows last month.
Gas Futures Jump 4.2% Dan Strumpf 2012
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Yet any decision to free Black Sea exports is unlikely to take the shine off the current weather-driven rally, say analysts.
Black Sea Wheat May Not Halt Rally Caroline Henshaw 2011
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The increase runs counter to forecasts just three months ago as strong global demand and weather-driven production problems in Australia and New Zealand drive increased prices.
Dean Foods Posts Loss on Charges, Dairy Woes Ian Berry 2011
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Clothing prices pushed up on the annual rate, as did food prices — especially bread and cereals, linked to weather-driven wheat-price increases — and vegetables.
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We also face increasing exposure to space weather-driven human health risk as trans-polar flights and space activities, including space tourism, increase.
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We also face increasing exposure to space weather-driven human health risk as trans-polar flights and space activities, including space tourism, increase.
NASA Watch: Space & Planetary Science: June 2010 Archives 2010
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The subject was whether global warming could be the likely cause for the Pakistan floods and other extreme weather events of the summer, with Schmidt pointing out that such weather-driven cataclysms are going to become more common later in the twenty-first century.
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The first-quarter performance "was exceptional, mainly weather-driven," he said.
GDF Suez Posts Profit Gain on Cold Weather, Gas Dispute 2009
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As we all sit in dismay watching the bodies float through the streets of New Orleans on TV, it may seem like the free market bears no real connection to this weather-driven event.
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O blessed, ever blessed be that Christ, that never refuseth the sinner that cometh unto him, though weather-driven by affliction and misery!
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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