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  • noun Plural form of automaker.

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Examples

  • This was my first real-world experience with "range anxiety," the term automakers have coined for the discomfort that strikes early electric vehicle owners who misjudge how far they can drive between charge-ups and fear getting stranded.

    Trying to Unplug and Drive 2010

  • Consumer downsizing is a term automakers use to describe the current trend in car buying.

    Autoblog Green Eric Loveday 2010

  • The only way these banks have any hope of surviving, and what makes them more worthy of government assistance than the automakers, is that they can easily restructure and fire half their employees to get themselves right-sized.

    Matthew Yglesias » Meet The New Jet 2009

  • The only way these banks have any hope of surviving, and what makes them more worthy of government assistance than the automakers, is that they can easily restructure and fire half their employees to get themselves right-sized.

    Matthew Yglesias » Meet The New Jet 2009

  • The current favored Bush plan, resulting in grants to the big three automakers is to produce vehicles that turn gas directly into hydrogen.

    Oil 2006

  • Ford Motors looking for some cash is selling 20 percent of its stake in Japanese automakers Mazda.

    CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2008 2008

  • Last week GM sold a piece of its GMAC mortgage business, and it recently sold or is selling its interests in Japanese automakers Suzuki, Fuji Heavy Industries' Subaru, and Isuzu Motors.

    What About Bob? 2006

  • (AP) - (Kyodo) - New imported vehicle sales in Japanese automakers, jumped 16.9 percent in February from

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • If granted, Toyota would join American automakers Last month, Toyota sold roughly $2 billion (200 billion yen) worth of 10-year bonds at rates much less favorable than what the automaker had previously been accustomed to.

    Autoblog 2009

  • If granted, Toyota would join American automakers Last month, Toyota sold roughly $2 billion (200 billion yen) worth of 10-year bonds at rates much less favorable than what the automaker had previously been accustomed to.

    Autoblog 2009

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