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词汇 master-key
释义 master key
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈmɑː.stə ˌkiː/ us /ˈmæs.tɚ ˌkiː/
a key that can be used to open any of several different locks: 万能钥匙
Eventually the hotel staff used a master key to open the door of the room.
Car burglars often have a master key that can open many vehicles.
something that can be used to solve many problems or explain many things:
master key toSelf-control is the master key to the solution of all our troubles.
The physicist contests the idea that string theory is the master key to the secrets of the Universe.
Thieves have stolen the master keys that unlocked the boxes.
There is a danger that the master key may be used for unauthorized opening of other safes in the hotel.
Humaneness is the master key to coping with almost any entrepreneurial challenge, since most of them result from the way people are treated in the enterprise.
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master key | American Dictionary


master key
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmæs·tər ˈki/
a key that can be used to open a number of different locks

Examples of master key


master key
It is powerful because structure appears to provide a masterkey to the central tendencies of major powers.
Is there a masterkey to his thinking, a central argument or idea around which all the rest revolves?
We assume a maximum number of cut levels for each pin and choose a bitting vector for the top masterkey as the starting point.
In a masterkey system, a lock has at least one pin with more than one cut, allowing more than one key to open it.
Recently published work which, directly or indirectly, addresses these topics is illuminating in detail but cautious in suggesting that a ' masterkey ' has been found.
Although staff have a masterkey to bedrooms, hotels enable guests to safeguard their privacy and control access to their rooms by providing printed cards to hang outside the door.
In politics, the way to success is to seek for the masterkey which will unlock not only one door but all doors.
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Hansard archive

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Each member has one of these small safes, numbered, but he has not a key, the masterkey being kept by the secretary or treasurer.
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Common ownership of a new town's estate was often referred to by him as the "masterkey".
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Drastic arms reductions are the masterkey to the problems facing our country.
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For all that work his masterkey was the revenue provided by the mining industry, and, secondly, as an essential temporary measure, a substantial loan of £6,000,000 or £7,000,000 for reconstruction.
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Hansard archive

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He may be worried that persons could be forced to hand over a masterkey rather than, say, a session key because the authority serving the notice provided insufficient information.
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It seems to me that it is technical and professional training which is the masterkey for solving the terrible problem of dealing with disabled officers and men.
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And even now they can be understood only by those who possess the masterkey to unlock them.
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Its products are typically marketed toward and installed into moderately sized or larger masterkey systems.
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