all-weather

[ awl-weth-er ]

/ ˈɔlˌwɛð ər /

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adjective

designed to operate or be usable in any type of weather: an all-weather coat; an all-weather shelter.

capable of resisting damage from exposure to any climatic conditions; weatherproof: an all-weather paint.

in or including all types of weather: years of all-weather experience in the Arctic.

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Origin of all-weather

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby all-weather

alluvial mining, alluvial plain, alluvion, alluvium, all very well, all-weather, all well and good, all wet, all-wheel drive, All Whites, all wool and a yard wide

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How to use all-weather in a sentence

But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
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The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.
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Frustrating as regulars find these fair-weather exercise interlopers, they were also all beginners once, he says.
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That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.
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Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
He had discovered that the all-glorious boast of Spain was not exempt from the infirmities of common men.
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Blamed ef I'd lived in a country all my life, ef I wouldn't know better'n to git caught out in such weather's this!
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Naturally the conversation fell on the all-absorbing topic of the day and the object of his mission.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
An old weather-beaten bear-hunter stepped forward, squirting out his tobacco juice with all imaginable deliberation.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

British Dictionary definitions for all-weather

all-weather

adjective

denoting a track, course, or pitch for athletic events or horse racing, made from material which is suitable for use in all weather conditions

noun

Also: allweather an all-weather track or pitch

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