powerhouse
pronunciation
How to pronounce powerhouse in British English:
UK [ˈpaʊəhaʊs]
How to pronounce powerhouse in American English:
US [ˈpaʊərhaʊs]
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- Noun:
- a highly energetic and indefatigable person
- a team considered to be the best of its class
- an electrical generating station
Word Origin
- powerhouse (n.)
- 1873, "building where power is generated," from power (n.) + house (n.). Figurative sense is from 1913.
Example
- 1. Corruption , grandstanding and total incompetence may sink brazil 's dreams of becoming an oil exporting powerhouse .
- 2. Can nintendo 's 3ds handheld become a powerhouse e-reader ?
- 3. Freak snowstorms have short-circuited the economic powerhouse china .
- 4. Yet as quickly as china has risen as an athletic powerhouse , so have questions from other teams clouding its achievements .
- 5. The image of white-suited colonials sipping singapore slings on the raffles hotel veranda have long been subsumed by singapore 's reputation as a corruption-free ( and chewing-gum-free ) economic powerhouse .