Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An aggregation of boilers, gas-producers, and engines and their accessories for the generation of power; a station where power is generated by steam or other engines or by water-wheels. The power may be transformed into electrical energy in the same station.
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Examples
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Measures to reduce demand like smart meters and higher prices for peak times could allow for a scaling back of new power-plant construction.
Perverse Power in Japan James Simms 2011
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Mr. Tada is in a group of semiskilled workers who hover somewhere in the middle of Japan's nuclear power-plant ecosystem.
Behind Reactor Battle, a Legion of Grunts Phred Dvorak 2011
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On the issue of nuclear power in the wake of the power-plant crisis in Japan, Warren Buffett said Saturday: "I think nuclear power is safe."
Buffett Calls Sokol Stock Purchases 'Inexcusable' Serena Ng 2011
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India, which has no history of using power-plant fuel in weapons production, denies it plans to use the civilian nuclear deal to bolster its nuclear warheads.
Pakistan Looks For U.S. Deal Tom Wright 2010
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Such activities may include mergers, acquisitions and investment projects such as power-plant and high-speed train construction.
Japan Cabinet Approves Extra Budget for Economic Package Kazuhiro Shimamura 2010
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We have bottom-oriented thinking in mileage standards for cars, in acceptable levels of pollutants in power-plant emissions and other industrial operations and in permissible levels of chemicals in food and drugs.
Terry Newell: Race to the Bottom: How Low Expectations Are Hurting Us Terry Newell 2011
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In the old times -- that's only ten years ago -- a federal minister of planning would sit in his office and single-handedly decide whether a road, port or power-plant would be built, as well as who would build it.
Marcelo Giugale: How Tomorrow's Infrastructure Will Be Built Marcelo Giugale 2011
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Mr. Sprecher, the 56-year-old entrepreneur and onetime power-plant developer, is going back to his roots with the Brazil deal.
ICE Sets Brazil Deal Amid Exchange Fight Aaron Lucchetti 2011
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We have bottom-oriented thinking in mileage standards for cars, in acceptable levels of pollutants in power-plant emissions and other industrial operations and in permissible levels of chemicals in food and drugs.
Terry Newell: Race to the Bottom: How Low Expectations Are Hurting Us Terry Newell 2011
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The economics of building multibillion-dollar nuclear reactors have deteriorated with a sharp drop in the price of natural gas – a common power-plant fuel – and a pullback in electricity demand during the recession.
Constellation Energy Nuclear Project Snags Mark Peters 2010
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