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heavy-duty

adjective heavier-duty · heaviest-duty

  1. Designed to withstand hard usage without breaking; hard-wearing. The cars are constructed to the normal B.R. standard coach specifications and mounted on heavy-duty B.R.2 type bogies with B.T.R. rubber vibro-insulators on the bearing springs.

    Opposite: light-duty

  2. informal Very serious, intense, or demanding. Stewart has 18 years of programming experience, and he's one of only a handful of people at the St. Petersburg computer consulting company who can handle such heavy-duty programming. Such skills can earn a programmer of Stewart's caliber about $70,000 a year.

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adj designed to withstand hard usage

中文耐用的 nàiyòng de
Deutschhochleistungsfähig, strapazierfähig

adj very serious, intense, or demanding

中文繁重的 fánzhòng de, 激烈的 jīliè de

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@misc{heavy_duty_2026,
  title = {heavy-duty},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/heavy-duty},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}