tandem-compound

[ tan-duhm-kom-pound ]

/ ˈtæn dəmˌkɒm paʊnd /

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adjective

(of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.

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He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
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Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.
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They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.
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Now the lead breacher explained how he cut through the steel doors bin Laden used to seal himself into the compound at night.
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He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
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They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
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Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.
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The body of a young woman was found in the compound outside my bungalow, done to death in precisely the same way.
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