noun
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old age
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olden days; antiquity
Etymology
Origin of eld
before 1000; Middle English elde, Old English eldo, ieldo, derivative of ( e ) ald old; see world
Vocabulary lists containing eld
Example Sentences
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Eldorado Gold ELD -10.00%decrease; red down pointing triangle agreed to acquire Foran Mining for approximately 3.8 billion Canadian dollars, or US$2.79 billion, including debt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
Old F-150’s featured ELD as a physical knob; in the Lightning, it’s located in a submenu of the touchscreen.
From The Verge • May 11, 2022
Amazon’s Relay ELD — named after the company’s Relay platform for booking delivery jobs — works by plugging hardware into the diagnostics port of trucks to directly digest information from the engine, The Information writes.
From The Verge • Aug. 20, 2021
Paper logs could be fudged pretty easily, but not the ELD, which is wired to the truck’s engine and has a display screen visible to the driver.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2019
My new friend from the freight industry estimates that more than 800,000 noncompliant trucks were pulled from circulation when ELD enforcement began on April 1.
From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2018
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