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Meaning of Pennsy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

a nickname for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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Examples

“[page 32, caption] Pennsy's postwar Q2 employed the duplex-drive layout to ease the main-rod load and improve steam distribution on what otherwise would have been the 4-10-4 wheel arrangement. [page112] The role of unifying the insolvents into a truly national system fell to U.S.-born and Pennsy-trained Sir Henry Thornton (who went to Canada via the Long Island and England's Great Eastern).”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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