broad gauge
noun
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broad-gaugeadjectiveof or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge.
broad gauge
1 American
especially in technical use,
broad gage
noun
Railroads.
broad-gauge
2
American
[brawd-gayj]
/ ˈbrɔdˌgeɪdʒ /
Or
broad-gauged
adjective
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Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge.
broad-gauge rolling stock.
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of wide scope, application, or experience.
broad-gauge efforts to improve the health of our citizens.
broad gauge
British
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of broad gauge1
First recorded in 1835–45
Origin of broad-gauge2
1835–45, for an earlier sense
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The Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing index, a broad gauge of manufacturing activity, has been above the threshold for manufacturing-sector expansion for seven straight months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The first logistical nightmare is shifting wagons or their loads from broad gauge tracks - 1,524mm wide, in use in the former Soviet Union - to narrower European gauge - 1,432mm wide.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2022
MSCI’s broad gauge of regional markets outside Japan fell more than 2% to its lowest level since November 2020.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2022
The GSIA, whose member bodies track growth in their region, said professionally managed assets, using a broad gauge of what it means to invest sustainably, account for 36% of total assets under management.
From Reuters ● Jul. 18, 2021
So we feel assured that a certain number of railway accidents, as they are called, will continue to occur—be as broad gauge as you will!
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
Poland has a 400-kilometer broad-gauge railway linking Ukraine with its industrial southwest region of Silesia.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2022
The issue is that cargoes from Ukraine’s broad-gauge wagons need to be reloaded onto standard Europe size ones or the container section transferred onto different wheels.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2022
That book, published two years ago, covers similar terrain from a more broad-gauge perspective.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2020
That is sort of the broad-gauge intelligence gathering that many people are very worried about.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2011
He also made an instantaneous shutter to his camera, by the help of which he was able to get some very good pictures, notably one of the old broad-gauge train known as the "Flying Dutchman."
From The Life of Roger Langdon Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. [With a preface by H. Clifton Lambert.] by Henry Clifton Lambert
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