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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