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assembly-line - definition and meaning
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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective assembly line .
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This was the beginning of what would be called assembly-line work.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
This was the beginning of what would be called assembly-line work.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
Mr. Han and a team of other officials from Washington and Seoul have taken their pitch to berry growers and racehorse breeders, immigrant merchants and assembly-line employees in an unusual effort to build public support for one of President Barack Obama's maiden trade pacts.
Envoy Hits the Road for Trade Deal Elizabeth Williamson 2011
And it has engendered the gradual WALL-E-fication of our culture, in which the larger goal becomes the creation of passive consumers whose assembly-line work environments -- be they the actual assembly line or the assembly-esque world of modern office work -- can only be cured by the illusory freedom we exercise when we choose different products to purchase.
Sam Chaltain: Don't Believe the Hype (About College) Sam Chaltain 2011
Is the fact that Chihuly's work would "match EMP very well" an indictment of the EMP's Gehry-knocking-off-Gehry architecture, Chihuly's assembly-line art, or both?
Columbia Center Owners Miss Mortgage Payment « PubliCola 2010
But companies estimate it is anywhere from 10% to 30% cheaper to build a modular data center, in part because of the assembly-line like approach.
Data Centers Boom Ben Worthen 2011
And it has engendered the gradual WALL-E-fication of our culture, in which the larger goal becomes the creation of passive consumers whose assembly-line work environments -- be they the actual assembly line or the assembly-esque world of modern office work -- can only be cured by the illusory freedom we exercise when we choose different products to purchase.
Sam Chaltain: Don't Believe the Hype (About College) Sam Chaltain 2011
And it has engendered the gradual WALL-E-fication of our culture, in which the larger goal becomes the creation of passive consumers whose assembly-line work environments -- be they the actual assembly line or the assembly-esque world of modern office work -- can only be cured by the illusory freedom we exercise when we choose different products to purchase.
Sam Chaltain: Don't Believe the Hype (About College) Sam Chaltain 2011
And it has engendered the gradual WALL-E-fication of our culture, in which the larger goal becomes the creation of passive consumers whose assembly-line work environments -- be they the actual assembly line or the assembly-esque world of modern office work -- can only be cured by the illusory freedom we exercise when we choose different products to purchase.
Sam Chaltain: Don't Believe the Hype (About College) Sam Chaltain 2011
He looked like a senator and yet his films were done in such an assembly-line way.
Roger Corman: Scorsese, Stallone, Sayles, and other A-listers talk about the B-movie king | EW.com 2009
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