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- noun   The 
tractor component of asemi-trailer truck orarticulated lorry . 
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Examples
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All of those movie company semi-tractor trailer rigs, limos, RVs driving around ferrying equipment, support personnel and actors to shooting sites?
Glenn Beck Responds to James Cameron, Calls Avatar a “Smurf-Murdering Movie” | /Film 2010
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Elsewhere in the area, Matthew Tayler, a 17-year-old from rural Newton County, Indiana, died in his car, as did his still-unidentified passenger, when a semi-tractor lost control in the snow and slammed into them.
At Least Nine Dead From Blizzard In Chicagoland Will Guzzardi 2011
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Brandon Brock of Rockford, Ill., flew in from Chicago, making his first visit to Hagerstown to buy a semi-tractor for his trucking company from a local dealer.
Air Subsidies Hit Turbulence Josh Mitchell 2011
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We all hang out at the Oregon District, we socialize, eat, find entertainment, but on the other side of the trestle there's a semi-tractor trailer and people are sleeping under that on skids with cardboard for insulation, he says.
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We all hang out at the Oregon District, we socialize, eat, find entertainment, but on the other side of the trestle there's a semi-tractor trailer and people are sleeping under that on skids with cardboard for insulation, he says.
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Big semi-tractor trailers pulled up regularly in the parking lot outside the large plate glass windows that were steamed up nearly to the top.
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A semi-tractor trailer lay overturned on the road margin.
Name This Country 2006
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A lot of it is semi-tractor trailers full of food and supplies.
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* Unknown toxic chemicals released from structure and semi-tractor trailer trucks burned in Little Tujunga fire.
OpEdNews - Diary: Eerie Yellow Light From Sun Shining Through Smoke Filled Skies 2008
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This particular accident, mile marker 45 in the state of Oklahoma on I-40, just a minivan with 12 occupants lost control, crossed the center median, and was struck by a semi-tractor trailer, and it resulted in seven fatalities.
 
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