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Meaning of working horse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Synonym of workhorse (“someone or something that does a lot of work”).

figuratively

Examples

“Since the introduction of ultrasound in cardiology in the mid fifties, echocar­diography has continued to grow and has finally become, in particular after the introduction of Doppler modalities, the working horse of the cardiologist.”
“Density functional theory (DFT)¹ is the main working horse for material simulations, especially for ground-state properties such as atomic structures and binding energies.”

CEFR level

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