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Motive power

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  1. 1
    The power that enables something to move. figuratively, sometimes, uncountable, usually

    "Using electricity as motive power for railroads will do away with fuel trains, tenders, coal handling, water, and all that."

  2. 2
    the power or ability to move wordnet
  3. 3
    The locomotives or other powered units that operate on a railway. collective, uncountable, usually

    "While at first in the U.S.A. it may have been a matter of high-pressure salesmanship—and it has undoubtely been the irresistible enterprise of the General Motors Corporation, through its Electro-Motive subsidiary, that has set in motion this amazingly rapid transformation of American railway motive power, and has caused all the steam locomotive builders in the U.S.A. to follow suit or be left out in the cold—it seems now beyond dispute that, so far as the U.S.A. is concerned, the economics of the power question can be solved no other way."

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