conveyor belt

noun

Machinery.

1. an endless belt or chain, set of rollers, etc., for carrying materials or objects short distances, as from one part of a building to another.

conveyor belt

noun

1. a flexible endless strip of fabric or linked plates driven by rollers and used to transport objects, esp in a factory

Word History and Origins

Origin of conveyor belt¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

But there's another youngster ready to leap off the Amex talent conveyor belt.

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"I wanted to be a history teacher. I loved history and I loved teaching but the problem was the curriculum, especially history. Universities and colleges are a conveyor belt for socialist wokeism."

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They moved forward, relentlessly, ever bent, following a hulking machine with a conveyor belt that spirited away their fruit.

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Other footage showed bags of flour being unloaded at a bakery and hundreds of pitta breads rolling out of its ovens on conveyor belts.

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He is another one Brighton have picked off the conveyor belt.

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