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US
/ˈpaʊɝˌhaʊs/
]
[ UK /pˈaʊəhˌaʊs/ ]
[ UK /pˈaʊəhˌaʊs/ ]
NOUN
- a highly energetic and indefatigable person
- a team considered to be the best of its class
- an electrical generating station
How To Use powerhouse In A Sentence
- We need a northern powerhouse too. Times, Sunday Times
- Also: Gwynedd should be our powerhouse, instead we're just tired and old and undynamic. Final results
- I turned the empire from a weakened state to a formidable industrial powerhouse.
- You might have a sleek shirt, but a nice set of cufflinks can make you look like a real powerhouse - never underestimate their appeal.
- In the financial press the gangbuster talk is of a powerhouse economy and a buoyant and robust outlook.
- The financial powerhouse of baseball seems to take the view that he may as well play. Times, Sunday Times
- The pint-sized powerhouse uses “liquid borohydride technology” to give an ipod [...] GREEN CELL Universal Battery Sold in Vending Machines | Inhabitat
- He stared at the big chimney of the powerhouse, as tall as the trunk of a poplar in a "deadening" at home, and covered with vines to the top, and he wondered what on earth that could be. The Heart of the Hills
- In those days, the labor powerhouses in L.A. were the United Auto Workers and the machinists, each with close to 100,000 members in the auto and aerospace plants that ringed the city.
- The powerhouse who used to grip games by the scruff of the neck was a pale shadow yesterday. The Sun