Meaning of heavy-duty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. strong, tough, resistant
2. Designed to withstand hard usage without breaking; hard-wearing.
3. Very serious, intense, or demanding.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“The cars are constructed to the normal B.R. standard coach specifications and mounted on heavy-duty B.R.2 type bogies with B.T.R. rubber vibro-insulators on the bearing springs.”

“Stewart has 18 years of programming experience, and he's one of only a handful of people at the St. Petersburg computer consulting company who can handle such heavy-duty programming. Such skills can earn a programmer of Stewart's caliber about $70,000 a year.”

“Summit still has to ... summit some final steps before it can start crunching heavy-duty science.”

“No matter how great a football prospect is, they’re often only gradually exposed to the rigors of heavy-duty competition.”

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