Meaning of Combine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. London Underground
   colloquial
2. Ellipsis of combine harvester.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
3. A combination.
4. Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic or fraudulent intentions.
5. An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.
6. An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.
7. Ellipsis of combine car, a type of railway car that combines passenger and freight functions.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
8. A test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team.

Equivalents

Examples

“We can't finish⟳ harvesting because our combine⟳ is stuck in the mud.”

“When those combine⟳ wheels stops turnin' And the hard days work⟳ is done Theres a pub around the corner It's the place⟳ we 'ave our fun”

“The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine⟳ in order⟳ to hike up the network charges.”

“[In the decades before the First World War] In the USA and Germany in particular, huge manufacturing combines were being created and were developing a very powerful economic and increasingly political presence at home and on international markets.”

“His grandmother worked in the stamping plant⟳ of the sheet and tin combine⟳.”

“If you purchased this book chances are that you are planning on participating in a football combine⟳ or pro-day test⟳.”

“In 2008, a study⟳ was published that examined the ability of the NFL combine⟳ to predict⟳ football playing performance in the NFL (Kuzmits and Adams, 2008).”

“At the combine⟳, Reagor compared himself to the 49ers’ Deebo Samuel or Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill — whom he said he watched “every day””

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