Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A powerhouse; a building or buildings with the machinery and appliances contained therein for converting thermal or mechanical potential energy into a utilizable force; a place where power is generated or converted.

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Examples

  • Alstom, whose products include power-station equipment and high-speed trains, said net profit for the fiscal year ending March 31 was €462 million, down from €1.22 billion a year earlier.

    Alstom Net Plunges 62% Adam Mitchell 2011

  • The power-station disaster triggered a period of national mourning here, but investors and policy makers are increasingly nervous that the financial cost will eclipse the emotional toll, dramatically escalating an economic crisis aggravated by a weakening fiscal position and the financial sector's exposure to Greek bank debt.

    Cyprus Tries to Avoid Greek Contagion Joe Parkinson 2011

  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, in an undated photograph released Friday, inspects a power-station site.

    U.N. Council Condemns Korean Ship Attack 2010

  • The company has secured new terms on the Battersea power-station loan facility, subject to completion of legal documentation.

    Battersea Owner Plans Spinoff 2010

  • International Power also would benefit from GDF Suez's bigger balance sheet, improving its ability to bid for capital-intensive power-station contracts.

    GDF Suez's Recurring Power Play 2010

  • Then came the revelation in the Guardian that large coal-fired power stations could, according to green campaigners, be back on the table if, as now appears likely, the so-called "environmental performance standard" aimed at restricting power-station emissions fails to make it into the coalition's first energy bill, scheduled to be published later this year.

    Short-termism fails the environment 2010

  • 'Greenies' in Kent, being warmed by heat produced from COAL-FIRED power-station at Kingsworth today:

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • And the circular saw blade itself is a quarter-inch thick, so every four cuts you lose an inch of timber and generate mountains of sawdust, although not enough to interest a power-station in collecting it for burning as fuel.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The bark was all chipped and bagged for sale to garden stores, and the sawdust went to the power-station for burning as the five per cent renewable fuel that must now be mixed with coal by law in Australia.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • And the circular saw blade itself is a quarter-inch thick, so every four cuts you lose an inch of timber and generate mountains of sawdust, although not enough to interest a power-station in collecting it for burning as fuel.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

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