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workhorse
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A horse used primarily for manual labor; a draft horse 2 (context by extension English) Anyone or anything that does a lot of work; something or someone who works consistently or regularly.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Cunningham is the team's defensive workhorse . ▪ The Boeing 707 used to be the workhorse of air travel. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the real workhorse of the Galapagos operation was the tiny sub called the Alvin. ▪ He was ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from work (n.) + horse (n.). Figurative use by 1949.
Usage examples of workhorse.
The Sea Knight is a workhorse medium assault helicopter with two contrarotating, three-blade main rotors fore and aft on the fuselage.
The workhorse of the Wehrmacht remained the Mark IV medium tank, with 850 of them around the Kursk salient.
He went ahead to the far wall and slid open a large closet door, revealing case after case of work scooters and gravitic workhorses, each packed in a clear plastic block.
Daily life on the Ark, however had the Noahs borne it, that yearlong drift in searching circles afloat above their ruined world as the lambs and goats and she-bears and tigers and workhorses and owls and swans and geese among them contended for the best cabin and a preeminent chair upon the deck, all the while scanning the lowering skies, bent against the gales, complaining of the rain, glossed by lightning snaps, watching the far horizon for the first hint of land, for the greening crest of the highest hilltop to appear which they recognized at once and reclaimed as their own.
She had blue-chip stocks, she had mutual funds, she had some workhorse stocks.
Because proteins are the molecular workhorses of the human body, it is essential to discover their molecular properties.
The doors to one of them stood open revealing the three engines and distinctive corrugated metal fuselage of a JU52, the Junkers transport plane that was the workhorse of the German Army.
B-52H Stratofortress bomber, the workhorse of America's long-range heavy-bombardment fleet, built for long range and heavy nuclear and nonnuclear payloads.
Putting these two oppositely doped materials in contact creates a PN junction, the basis of the semiconductor diode and the solid-state transistors that are the workhorses of the information age.
From the wild first horses we got the Arabian racehorse, the Tennessee walker, the palomino, the farm workhorse.