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main engine

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meanings of mainand engine


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main
adjective[before noun]
uk /meɪn/ us /meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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engine
noun[C]
uk /ˈen.dʒɪn/ us /ˈen.dʒɪn/
a machine that uses the energy from liquid fuel or steam to ...
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Examples of main engine


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One of the mainengine rooms of renewal of our understanding of late tsarism has come from economic history.
This topic has historically served as the mainengine for the development of quantum optics.
That cooperation has been the mainengine of the successful outcome we will be voting on this week.
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With their integrated economies, together they represent around half the global economy: this transatlantic partnership is the mainengine of global economic prosperity.
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Inflation is the mainengine of the unemploy-ment that we are fighting.
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The mainengine of inflation was the burst in commodity prices, the oil shock and the accompanying pay explosion.
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The work carried out included mainengine air charge cooler defect repairs and to change a rotating joint on a radar.
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Little wonder that the construction industry is now the mainengine of recession.
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It is not aid but trade that constitutes the mainengine of development.
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Its rôle should be that of the starter motor and not the mainengine.
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On the first point, the mainengine for the sale of council houses has been the right to buy.
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Machines are now in service in which the drum is rotated hydrostatically through fluid power supplied from hydraulic pumps interposed on the mainengine and gearbox of the vehicle.
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Nevertheless, this is a field where new ideas can act as "a sparking plug" to the mainengine of the social services, which is, of course, on the test-bed.
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I am sure that the combined purchasing power of the mainengine and shipbuilding industry could have a major influence on the standardisation of components, which is seriously needed.
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Although the law commissions would be the mainengine of law reform, it is not practicable, or suitable, for the law commissions to undertake all of the work themselves.
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The mainengine was not piles of taxpayer's money, local authority efforts or volumes of regulation, but the close co-operation between central and local government and the private sector.
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Ramsgate is the principal town in my constituency, and the mainengine of economic growth and activity in the town is its harbour.
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I believe that it is the parents of children who are denied employment who will provide the main engine for change, rather than those who are directly affected.
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As a result, the engineers could not warm up heavy fuel oil to burn in the mainengine and the auxiliary boiler as they usually did, and they used diesel.
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It is a known fact that in the mainengine room artificers have to undertake a greater degree of responsibility than any other lower deck rating.
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