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单词 demolition
释义
demolition
(deməlɪʃən )
Word forms: demolitions
1. variable noun
The demolition of a building is the act of deliberately destroying it, often in order to build something else in its place.
The project required the total demolition of the old bridge.
The High Court has granted permission for the demolition work to continue.
Synonyms: knocking down, levelling, destruction, explosion  
2. uncountable noun
The demolition of a team or opponent is their defeat by a great amount. [journalism]
...Lazio's impressive 3-1 demolition of Inter Milan.
Idioms:
do a demolition job on someone [British, journalism]
to attack someone very strongly, or to defeat them completely
In his speech, Cook did a demolition job on the prime minister's strategy.
Collocations:
demolition expert
Will you choose to be a builder or demolition expert?
Christianity Today
The twelve characters have different specializations: sniper, demolition expert and so on.
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Many hours would be needed to plant charges and, as a result, a large team of demolition experts would be necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
However, the steep, tight location will make the demolition experts' work difficult.
Times, Sunday Times
Primarily infantrymen and demolitions experts, they also contained medical technicians and radio operators.
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demolition order
The only course was to wait for the inevitable demolition order and hope to get at least some of their money back.
Times, Sunday Times
The residents asked the supreme court to block the demolition order, but the court ruled against them last year.
Times, Sunday Times
After a period as the haunt of squatters, and a final gasp of oxygen in the late 1960s as a club, a demolition order was issued.
Times, Sunday Times
He was in the middle of fighting a demolition order on his home, which appears to have been given the go-ahead by a corrupt planning committee.
Times, Sunday Times
In 1997, the first demolition order was issued, followed by another one in 2003.
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demolition site
The address of the building was a demolition site.
Times, Sunday Times
I got a job on a demolition site for 80 a day.
The Sun
Old sash windows and fireplace surrounds rescued from the same demolition site across the street were also put to new use.
Times, Sunday Times
In between the rubble and the demolition site, a bright blue building stood untouched and incongruous.
Times, Sunday Times
Up on the walls, a set of battered abstracts, covered in spray paint, looked as if they had been prised off the perimeter fence of a demolition site.
Times, Sunday Times
demolition team
And then the demolition team fenced the site, removed the asbestos, blocked the car park off and introduced a vast crane-bulldozer.
The Times Literary Supplement
She sent 40 vans full of riot police yesterday to protect social workers and the demolition team.
Times, Sunday Times
A demolition team later arrived and took care of the situation.
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They were built for use by underwater demolition teams and special forces.
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The stand had already been condemned, and the demolition teams were due to start work just two days later.
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Translations:
Chinese: 拆毁
Japanese: 取り壊し建物などの
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