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gear | Business English

gear
noun[ U ]
uk /ɡɪər/us
a system or piece of equipment:
A good place to connect with other consumers is Epinions.com, which posts reviews on all sorts of gadgets and gear.
computer/electronic/networking gear
equipment or clothes that are used for a particular activity:
The workers said they received no protective gear or warnings about the dangers of asbestos.
informal
the speed at which something happens or is done:
After a slow start, the leadership campaign suddenly shifted into gear.
high/low/top gear
 move/step up a gearUKinformal
to start to do something better or faster:
The price war stepped up a gear yesterday when two major chains announced they were cutting the cost of petrol.

Examples of gear

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As the alternative for the stiff systems (having high ratio gears, high friction, etc.) we propose to use the tactile sensors.
One of the main targets of the optimization was to increase the contact ratio of the gear pair.
Internalization as a process of abstraction is geared toward finding default solutions.
Rather, he is restricted to using a particular type of gear in a particular part of the lease unit for a specific period of time.
Standardized fishing effort is standardized across gear types to 14-18 m otter trawl vessels.
Investment in fishing gear, engines, and vessels all increase the capital stock in the harvesting sector.
It is known that the flagella perform a propeller-like movement with a specific handedness resulting from the gear-like structure of their molecular motors.
Naturally, further work geared specifically towards redistributive questions would be very interesting.
However, such a low gear ratio results in a low weight-topayload ratio, which makes many potential application areas of a telemanipulation system unsuitable.
The orientation toward the economisation of foreign policies - geared toward market-driven integration into the world economy - has prioritised economic interests.
Essentially, this series seems to be geared towards the student text-book market.
Based on the same principle, elasticity of gears is introduced into the mathematical model in this paper, as also in refs.
Another servomotor along with a spur gear could rotate the weights, thus, influencing the offset mass system.
Some par ts, such as the engine or gear system, come from different companies, together with known mass proper ties.
Axial coding is a more focused process than open coding and is geared toward the discovering and relating of subcategories to categories.
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Collocations withgear

gear

These are words often used in combination with gear.

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camping gear
It later added campinggear and in 1990 renamed itself.
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