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Meaning of heavy machinery | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Industrial machinery specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations.
    uncountable
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see heavy, machinery.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“You shouldn't operate heavy machinery without a licence.”
“The heavy machinery industry of China, including the manufacture of iron and steel plant, rolling mill, heavy—duty forging and pressing machinery, large forgings and castings, etc., developed along a hard and tortuous road from small products to huge ones, from single machines to complete plants after the birth of New China.”
“Completion of the railroad allowed heavy machinery to be brought to the mine, including a 40-meter rotary kiln.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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