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  • noun Plural form of hi-fi.

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Examples

  • The news that: More than £320,000 of taxpayers 'money has been spent on flat-screen televisions, hi-fis and DVD players for Whitehall departments, it has been reported.

    Labour waste Not a sheep 2008

  • The second biggest bill was at the Treasury, which spent £42,000 on televisions, £25,000 on DVD players and £9,600 on hi-fis - despite Treasury Minister Yvette Cooper's claims to be leading a 'war on waste' across government.

    Labour waste Not a sheep 2008

  • The news that: More than £320,000 of taxpayers 'money has been spent on flat-screen televisions, hi-fis and DVD players for Whitehall departments, it has been reported.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • At home I wrote bad poetry and painted water colours, mostly of ponies in fields; at school—there were only boys at my school—I played cricket competently, acted a little, hung around with my friends playing records the CD was around, but they were expensive and rare, and we had all inherited record players and hi-fis from parents or older siblings.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • At home I wrote bad poetry and painted water colours, mostly of ponies in fields; at school—there were only boys at my school—I played cricket competently, acted a little, hung around with my friends playing records the CD was around, but they were expensive and rare, and we had all inherited record players and hi-fis from parents or older siblings.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • The second biggest bill was at the Treasury, which spent £42,000 on televisions, £25,000 on DVD players and £9,600 on hi-fis - despite Treasury Minister Yvette Cooper's claims to be leading a 'war on waste' across government.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • At home I wrote bad poetry and painted water colours, mostly of ponies in fields; at school—there were only boys at my school—I played cricket competently, acted a little, hung around with my friends playing records the CD was around, but they were expensive and rare, and we had all inherited record players and hi-fis from parents or older siblings.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • After all, how many young'uns even own proper hi-fis anymore?

    Tony Sachs: The Beatles Remastered: The Last Hurrah For CDs? 2009

  • On March 16, 1978, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, Dick Cavett on late night TV and hi-fis on sale at Hecht's, Sarah McKee walked into the Arlington Central Library and borrowed a book.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • On March 16, 1978, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, Dick Cavett on late night TV and hi-fis on sale at Hecht's, Sarah McKee walked into the Arlington Central Library and borrowed a book.

    Very Late Returns 2009

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