| 单词 | standby duty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstandby duty a. Designating a state, condition, or position of readiness; of or relating to this. Esp. in standby duty.Recorded earliest in standby loss n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready i-radc888 yarec888 i-redec1000 i-redya1175 boundc1175 graith?c1225 aready1250 alreadyc1275 readyc1275 armedc1300 prestc1300 bentc1330 ripec1330 purveyed1435 mature?1440 apt1474 habile1485 in (a) case to (also for)1523 provided1533 in procinct1540 weeping-ripe1548 furnished1553 fit1569 preta1600 expedite1604 predy1613 procinct1618 foreprepared1642 presto1644 apparated1663 (ready) in one's gears1664 fallow1850 standby1893 organized1926 (to be) all set1949 1893 Electrician 20 Jan. 317/1 It [sc. a system] appears to allow the fires to be maintained uniformly, and thus the ‘stand-by losses’ of boilers [sc. of locomotives] worked for only a few hours a day may be avoided. 1912 Daily Mail 8 May 5/3 John Poigndestra, an A.B. on the Titanic, said he was on stand-by duty when the Titanic struck. 1922 Wireless World 10 355/1 The receiving telephones are hung on a special rest, this automatically putting the call-receiver in a stand-by position. 1944 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 25 May 4/1 Ammunition plants which were closed or placed on a standby basis..have been ordered reopened. 2017 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 25 June 21 The TNB staff members, who represented about a quarter of TNB's workforce, had been on 24-hour standby duty since Friday. < as lemmas |
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