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portal-to-portal
[ pawr-tl-tuh-pawr-tl, pohr-tl-tuh-pohr-t ]
/ ˈpɔr tl təˈpɔr tl, ˈpoʊr tl təˈpoʊr t /
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adjective
noting or pertaining to the time a worker spends from entering the workplace to stepping outside, especially in relation to pay.
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Words nearby portal-to-portal
portal frame,
portal hypertension,
portal lobule of liver,
portal system,
portal-systemic encephalopathy,
portal-to-portal,
portal-to-portal pay,
portal vein,
portamento,
portance,
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How to use portal-to-portal in a sentence
What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.
The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
Well, the numbers tell us so, as do all of our day-to-day interactions, just as the president said.
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.
British Dictionary definitions for portal-to-portal
adjective
of or relating to the period between the actual times workers enter and leave their mine, factory, etcportal-to-portal pay
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