heavy-duty

American  

[hev-ee-doo-tee, -dyoo-] / ˈhɛv iˈdu ti, -ˈdyu- /

adjective

1. providing an unusual amount of power, durability, etc..

   heavy-duty machinery; heavy-duty shoes.

2. very important, impressive, or serious.

   heavy-duty involvement; heavy-duty questions.

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heavy-duty British  

noun

1. made to withstand hard wear, bad weather, etc

   heavy-duty uniforms

2. subject to high import or export taxes

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Etymology

Origin of heavy-duty

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

In my part of the world, heavy-duty pickups often work weekends, hauling the entrepreneurial class’s pleasure boats to and from the coast.

From The Wall Street Journal

MINNEAPOLIS—In a typical winter, Minnesota’s transportation department would be mobilizing its heavy-duty vehicles to plow snow, but lately it has redeployed part of its fleet to block streets for protests.

From The Wall Street Journal

He pointed to someone in a glassed-in room taking samples out of a petri dish with a pipette and putting it under a large, heavy-duty microscope hooked up to a computer monitor.

From Literature

Akira found a heavy-duty Ziploc bag with some frozen leftovers in it, dumped the food out in the sink, and filled the bag with ice.

From Literature

Inside a cavernous shipbuilding hangar, workers cut and weld steel for the yard's latest icebreaker, a heavy-duty Arctic vessel, called Polarmax that's destined for the Canadian coastguard.

From BBC

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