26984 words

generator

8 definitions • 10 examples
1

Examples:

The hospital's emergency generators are designed to cope with power cuts.
2
a machine or device that produces something:

Examples:

a random number generator
3
a company or organization that produces something:

Examples:

Within the United States, the military is the largest generator of hazardous waste.
Tourism is Australia's greatest generator of employment.
4
a person who produces something:

Examples:

Effective leaders do not themselves have to be generators of ideas.
6

Examples:

The turbine connects to a generator and feeds power into the grid.
7
a person, company, government, etc. that produces something:

Examples:

a generator of sth Southern England is the chief generator of tax for the United Kingdom overall.
an income/economic/revenue generator
8

Examples:

National Power, Britain's second largest generator, announced record profits yesterday.

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