plumbing
Origin of plumbing
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How to use plumbing in a sentence
According to McCauley, these regulatory developments are helping to initiate a major update to the country’s financial plumbing.
In a first for the crypto industry, Visa-backed Anchorage gets a federal bank charter | Jeff Roberts | January 13, 2021 | FortuneRenting, living in a mobile home and earning less than the local median income are all associated with plumbing problems.
This is largely because the company’s focus is on providing back-end financial plumbing to other firms, including digital bank Revolut.
PayPal joins a major investment round in ‘plug-and-play’ crypto firm Paxos | Jeff | December 17, 2020 | FortuneMend all cracks in the walls, repair all plumbing and replace cracked tiles.
Hints From Heloise: Fire hazards in the laundry room | Heloise Heloise | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostThose patterns tell me there’s something wrong with the plumbing.
A.I. gets down in the dirt as precision agriculture takes off | Aaron Pressman | October 5, 2020 | Fortune
Co., Missouri Corporation that manufactures plumbing products.
We lived in a tiny trailer that my mother had bought back in 1969, a trailer without running water or indoor plumbing.
They found the building was a shell, with no apparently electricity or plumbing, and no completed inner construction.
He put its science in simple terms “Imagine you have clogged up plumbing due to debris,” Chatterjee said.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins Come Closer to Eliminating Heart Disease | Dale Eisinger | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWell, don't you know that there are people in the third world for whom indoor plumbing is but a fantasy?
Even their housekeeping is no longer a disagreeable thing kept out of sight as much as possible, as the plumbing used to be.
The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping | Elizabeth Hale GilmanThe installation of the electric plant in a dwelling house is done in the same way, and as regularly, as the plumbing is.
Steam Steel and Electricity | James W. SteeleBut if dirty work was done to you, Burkett would have been a handier tool for Fogg than a Stillson wrench in a plumbing job.
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayDown in the room over the tin and plumbing shop in which I lived, I found it cold indeed.
Tramping on Life | Harry KempNobody came at her instant command to examine the plumbing and see that it was in order for the season.
Dorothy | Evelyn Raymond
British Dictionary definitions for plumbing
/ (ˈplʌmɪŋ) /
Also called: plumbery the trade or work of a plumber
the pipes, fixtures, etc, used in a water, drainage, or gas installation
the act or procedure of using a plumb to gauge depth, a vertical, etc
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