Heavy-duty
adj, slang
adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Designed to withstand hard usage without breaking; hard-wearing.
"The cars are constructed to the normal B.R. standard coach specifications and mounted on heavy-duty B.R.2 type bogies with B.T.R. rubber vibro-insulators on the bearing springs."
- 2 Very serious, intense, or demanding. informal
"Stewart has 18 years of programming experience, and he's one of only a handful of people at the St. Petersburg computer consulting company who can handle such heavy-duty programming. Such skills can earn a programmer of Stewart's caliber about $70,000 a year."
Adjective
- 1 designed for heavy work wordnet
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More examples"Heavy-duty vehicles (commercial trucks, vans, and buses) are currently the second largest source of greenhouse gas pollution within the transportation sector."