Meaning of working horse | Babel Free

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