Armco

/ ˈɑːmkəʊ /

noun

1. a metal safety barrier erected at the side of motor-racing circuits, esp on corners

Example Sentences

He admits that his grandfather “owned stock in Armco and had a lucrative pension.”

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After several years with Mr. Oztemel, he became a vice president at Armco Steel and founded Mercator in 1984.

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They got work at, for example, the Armco steel mill in Middletown, and often resettled their Appalachian social networks in such towns in a chain-migration pattern.

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He spun out on the third turn heading uphill in the esses on the fifth lap and slammed the Armco barrier lining the track, ending his day.

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Life in Middletown, with nearly 49,000 people, long revolved around the Armco Steel company that became AK Steel during Vance’s youth.

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