Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In water-works, and other works in which machinery is driven by power from steam, electric, or other prime motors, a building especially provided to contain the prime motor or motors from which power is conveyed to the driven machinery by a main shaft and gearing, or by a belt or cable.
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Examples
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He introduced me to Lena Rustin, a tiny power-house of a woman who was also an experienced speech therapist.
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Despite the ominous signs, France is pushing on with a grand plan, dreamed up after the start of the 2003 Iraq war to create a foreign media power-house that could challenge the dominance of U.S news channels.
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If India is going to assume its status with the other BRIC countries as an economic power-house, its model of 'development' needs to be reassessed.
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Brazil has in recent years risen as an agricultural power-house, but it now ranks as the fourth — biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, thanks mainly to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
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But I doubt that a little thing like the truth will not get in the way of a power-house like Move-On.
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How much does endorsement by the chief power-house count?
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This suggests that US policies have, and will continue to, broadly represent the insecurities and interests of Anglo-American capital – and further, that American business classes actually favoured Obama and provided him the finances and expertise to produce a power-house media and publicity campaign.
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The concept was generated by power-house ad agency Wexley School for Girls who brought aboard Greg Scott from Workbench Creative to direct the project.
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Obama's nominee, then, is merely a liberal judge: she is not an intellectual power-house capable of challenging the judicial conservatives in SCOTUS.
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It stayed super long on me, although I wouldn't call it a power-house strong scent.
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