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Westar

American  
[wes-tahr] / ˈwɛs tɑr /

noun

  1. one of a series of privately owned geostationary communications satellites that service commercial users in the U.S.


Etymology

Origin of Westar

West(ern Union st)ar

Example Sentences

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The companies have acknowledged the deal would lead them to trim their workforces, but they promised that Westar would retain its Topeka headquarters.

From Washington Times • Apr. 19, 2017

Westar is on track to get 33 percent of its power from wind and 17 percent from the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant near Burlington, said company vice president Jeff Beasley.

From Washington Times • Oct. 7, 2016

Both satellites, the Palapa B-2 and the Westar 6, which had been deployed from a shuttle earlier in the year, had slipped into useless orbits.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2014

That’s when Group W would beam the first Discovery Channel signal to the Westar V satellite positioned 22,236 miles above the equator.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2013

Just hours later, his office filed a motion to dismiss its most prominent criminal case, a seven-year-old corporate-fraud prosecution against two former top executives at Westar Energy, the state’s largest electric utility.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2010

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