Krupp
pronunciation
How to pronounce Krupp in British English:
UK [krʌp]
How to pronounce Krupp in American English:
US [krʊp, krʌp]
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- Noun:
- German arms manufacturer and son of Friedrich Krupp; his firm provided ordinance for German armies from the 1840s through World War II (1812-1887)
- German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826)
Word Origin
- Krupp (n.)
- 1883, gun made at the armaments works in Essen, Germany, founded by German metallurgist Alfred Krupp (1812-1887).
Example
- 1. He martied bertha krupp , heiress to the krupp industrial empire .
- 2. He wasn 't about to let krupp knowhow many allowances he needed . He didn 't really know himself .
- 3. Revolutions are never easy , but as krupp 's book shows , the solutions to the climate crisis are out there - and so are the new environmentalists .
- 4. Huawei is contemplating a public offering on wall street but has run into a gantlet of rhetoric from democrats and republicans that paints the company as something just slightly better than the arms manufacturer krupp at the height of nazi germany .
- 5. Mayan time was cyclic , and experts like dr. krupp and anthony aveni , an astronomer and anthropologist at colgate university , say there is no evidence that the mayans thought anything special would happen when the odometer rolled over on this long count in 2012 .