workhorse English

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workhorse Noun

— A workhorse is a horse that is used for work for something.

— If a person or thing is a workhorse, they do a lot of work over a long period of time. Those old machines are not very glamorous, but even 20 years after their introduction, they are still the workhorses of the industry.

workhorse

— noun a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor

— noun machine that performs dependably under heavy use the IBM main frame computers have been the workhorse of the business world

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