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powerhouse
[ pou-er-hous ]
noun
- Electricity. a generating station.
- a person, group, team, or the like, having great energy, strength, or potential for success.
powerhouse
/ ˈpaʊəˌhaʊs /
noun
- an electrical generating station or plant
- informal.a forceful or powerful person or thing
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Word History and Origins
Origin of powerhouse1
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Example Sentences
Because the National Football League is a cultural and economic powerhouse.
The group was founded in 2008 by operatives who would later have ties to the dark money powerhouse Crossroads GPS.
I think Alysha Umphress doing “I Can Cook Too” is a powerhouse number.
UN Women has high hopes for Watson—to the point where they want to make her their next celebrity human-rights powerhouse.
Macron excelled at France's elite schools, including the civil-servant powerhouse Ecole Nationale d'Administration.
Charlie was an engineer at the new nuclear powerhouse, just out of town.
The whirr of flapping leathern bands and hum of dynamos from the powerhouse urged Stephen to be on.
Continuous, untiring, the sounds suggested the unthinking vitality of a steam-engine or of a dynamo in a powerhouse.
Caton and his men had spent the wait on Mercury working on the great generators in the powerhouse nose.
The other men returned to the powerhouse with their shotguns and the fire axe, and telephoned to Bootstrap.
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