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Definition of wrecker in English: wreckernoun ˈrɛkəˈrɛkər 1A person or thing that wrecks something. in combination she was unfairly portrayed as a marriage wrecker Example sentencesExamples - Organisers of the village's Britain in Bloom entry say they will not let the wreckers win.
- It illustrates the lengths to which peace-wreckers, and men of violence, are prepared to go to to scupper hopes of harmony and disturb political stability.
- During our longstanding dispute over a pay rise, this Government accused us of being wreckers.
- This, after all, is the man who can praise public service workers to the skies and then, almost in the next breath, dismiss them as wreckers.
- Church leaders were today surveying the damage after the wreckers broke into the Church of the Nazarene last night.
- The vandalism - ranging from the petty to the downright life-threateningly dangerous - is leading to justifiable discontentment among residents who have to live in the midst of the wreckers.
- The thefts have led John McCormack, 74, an allotment holder from Canterbury Avenue, Little Horton, to call for fences to be put up to keep the wreckers at bay.
- Not all holiday indulgences are diet-wreckers.
- Suddenly I was being portrayed as someone I didn't recognise - a heartless, predatory marriage-wrecker.
- She reportedly told a close friend: ‘I've been painted as the Wicked Witch of the West and a marriage wrecker.’
- It's those Germans again, those familiar wreckers of English footballing dreams.
- To top it off, she was a relationship wrecker.
- A twice-married judge accused of having an affair with a friend's wife was branded a family wrecker last night.
- And within weeks the lack of security has taken its toll with wreckers causing thousands of pounds of damage.
- For years now the park has been a haven for glue sniffers, teenage drinkers and wreckers.
- The wreckers are thought to have struck late on Friday night and again on Saturday - ironically just around the corner from Ilkley Police Station.
- Two of the wreckers, aged only six and eight, were below the age of criminal responsibility but two others, aged 13 and 12, were charged with criminal damage and referred to Salford Youth Court.
- 1.1North American A person who breaks up damaged vehicles or demolishes old buildings to obtain usable spares or scrap.
Example sentencesExamples - Smash repairers and wreckers say these copied parts are often inferior in quality, safety and fit.
- Since then, I've put some more thought into it and probably the easiest way of making a bow prod is to get an old leaf spring from a car wrecker.
- At the end of the day, have the wreckers remove the vehicles to a holding facility, where they are then collected after payment of the fines and wrecking fee.
- There is the odd door way that the wreckers left standing, but the original shikumen houses were demolished to provide space to build.
- New South Wales is the only state where wreckers have to account from where they got their parts.
- Most wreckers dismantle cars they've bought at auctions of vehicles written off by insurance companies.
- If a vehicle is deregistered, sold to a motor wrecker, then purchased by somebody who decides to repair that vehicle, it can be repaired.
- No trace of the buildings exists now that the blue-uniformed wreckers and bulldozers have done their work.
- I'm all for calling the wreckers and getting them to take it away.
- Just a walk from here, two houses more are ready for the wrecker.
- The family car should have been at the wreckers, but it wasn't.
- The dealer was just going to give it to the wreckers but I went and rescued it.
2North American A recovery vehicle. they raced out with the wrecker when they heard there'd been an accident Example sentencesExamples - I arrived at the scene and waited for the medical team to leave and the fire department and highway patrol to finish before I could start the job of loading what was left of this mangled vehicle onto the back of my wrecker.
- Unable to recover the vehicle or abandon it, a wrecker was the next best option.
- In the event a fuel truck broke down, one of the empty fuel trucks could transfer the fuel, and a HEMTT or a 10-ton wrecker could then recover the broken fueller.
- They were nice enough to call a wrecker for me but once he showed up the police and the other driver drove their separate ways.
- Several police officers were on the scene and a wrecker was called out to remove illegally parked vehicles.
- A wrecker to take the car that same distance cost $300.
- The driver of the wrecker summoned to remove the damaged cars was also charged for not displaying his number plate.
- Along with the chase vehicles, several wreckers also will be waiting along the course.
- Back on the police wrecker again; have you heard that they are not adhering to the prescribed procedures for the towing away of vehicles?
- Since the car park was closed to give way to the planned development of the $300 million complex, visitors to San Fernando have been starved for parking and played cat-and-mouse with the police wrecker on a daily basis.
- For instance, a maintenance mission would require a wrecker or at least a HMMWV manned with mechanics, tools, and a tow bar.
- The armored box could be lifted by a 5-ton wrecker or a 10,000-pound forklift, so it could be moved from one vehicle to another in case the vehicle it was mounted on became not mission capable.
- Creative parking on the sidewalks and in no-parking zones would have been good feeding ground for the police wreckers.
- The FWTD augments the recovery capability by performing the towing functions, leaving the wrecker free for other recovery situations, such as overturned vehicles.
- I have weighted the recovery team with not only ambulances and a physicians assistant, but also a wrecker or a CH - 47 with a maintenance team to recover the vehicle.
- Lanes one and two of the motorway were closed for about an hour while two wreckers were used to drag the lorry from the ditch.
- Police escorted the Mack wrecker, with the two-tonne chopper in tow, on its 8km journey to Sydney Airport where maintenance repairs could be conducted.
- Maneuvering a heavy, expanded-mobility tactical truck wrecker into position often was a challenge in the crowded streets of an urban environment.
3historical A person on the shore who tries to bring about a shipwreck in order to plunder or profit from the wreckage. Example sentencesExamples - It may look benign on a calm day, but the North Devon coast is a wrecker's paradise.
- This also allows her to examine those peculiarities of current and shoreline that make stretches of water like the Pentland Firth such rich pickings for local wreckers.
- So many ships have foundered along this coast, driven onto its reefs by storms or lured there by wreckers ' lights, that pieces from Spanish galleons still wash up with the tide.
- Quoyle learns about his ancestors, who were pirates and wreckers, gets a job as a reporter on the local rag and meets Wavey Prowse who teaches the children at the school.
Rhymes Becker, checker, Cheka, chequer, Dekker, exchequer, Flecker, mecca, Neckar, Necker, Quebecker, Rebecca, Rijeka, trekker, weka Definition of wrecker in US English: wreckernounˈrɛkərˈrekər 1A person or thing that wrecks, damages, or destroys something. in combination she was unfairly portrayed as a marriage wrecker Example sentencesExamples - To top it off, she was a relationship wrecker.
- Not all holiday indulgences are diet-wreckers.
- The vandalism - ranging from the petty to the downright life-threateningly dangerous - is leading to justifiable discontentment among residents who have to live in the midst of the wreckers.
- This, after all, is the man who can praise public service workers to the skies and then, almost in the next breath, dismiss them as wreckers.
- Church leaders were today surveying the damage after the wreckers broke into the Church of the Nazarene last night.
- For years now the park has been a haven for glue sniffers, teenage drinkers and wreckers.
- And within weeks the lack of security has taken its toll with wreckers causing thousands of pounds of damage.
- The wreckers are thought to have struck late on Friday night and again on Saturday - ironically just around the corner from Ilkley Police Station.
- During our longstanding dispute over a pay rise, this Government accused us of being wreckers.
- A twice-married judge accused of having an affair with a friend's wife was branded a family wrecker last night.
- The thefts have led John McCormack, 74, an allotment holder from Canterbury Avenue, Little Horton, to call for fences to be put up to keep the wreckers at bay.
- Organisers of the village's Britain in Bloom entry say they will not let the wreckers win.
- She reportedly told a close friend: ‘I've been painted as the Wicked Witch of the West and a marriage wrecker.’
- Suddenly I was being portrayed as someone I didn't recognise - a heartless, predatory marriage-wrecker.
- It's those Germans again, those familiar wreckers of English footballing dreams.
- Two of the wreckers, aged only six and eight, were below the age of criminal responsibility but two others, aged 13 and 12, were charged with criminal damage and referred to Salford Youth Court.
- It illustrates the lengths to which peace-wreckers, and men of violence, are prepared to go to to scupper hopes of harmony and disturb political stability.
- 1.1North American A person who breaks up damaged vehicles, demolishes old buildings, salvages wrecked ships, etc., to obtain usable spares or scrap.
Example sentencesExamples - Smash repairers and wreckers say these copied parts are often inferior in quality, safety and fit.
- Most wreckers dismantle cars they've bought at auctions of vehicles written off by insurance companies.
- I'm all for calling the wreckers and getting them to take it away.
- At the end of the day, have the wreckers remove the vehicles to a holding facility, where they are then collected after payment of the fines and wrecking fee.
- New South Wales is the only state where wreckers have to account from where they got their parts.
- The family car should have been at the wreckers, but it wasn't.
- The dealer was just going to give it to the wreckers but I went and rescued it.
- No trace of the buildings exists now that the blue-uniformed wreckers and bulldozers have done their work.
- Since then, I've put some more thought into it and probably the easiest way of making a bow prod is to get an old leaf spring from a car wrecker.
- Just a walk from here, two houses more are ready for the wrecker.
- There is the odd door way that the wreckers left standing, but the original shikumen houses were demolished to provide space to build.
- If a vehicle is deregistered, sold to a motor wrecker, then purchased by somebody who decides to repair that vehicle, it can be repaired.
2North American A tow truck. Example sentencesExamples - Creative parking on the sidewalks and in no-parking zones would have been good feeding ground for the police wreckers.
- Unable to recover the vehicle or abandon it, a wrecker was the next best option.
- In the event a fuel truck broke down, one of the empty fuel trucks could transfer the fuel, and a HEMTT or a 10-ton wrecker could then recover the broken fueller.
- Maneuvering a heavy, expanded-mobility tactical truck wrecker into position often was a challenge in the crowded streets of an urban environment.
- Since the car park was closed to give way to the planned development of the $300 million complex, visitors to San Fernando have been starved for parking and played cat-and-mouse with the police wrecker on a daily basis.
- The armored box could be lifted by a 5-ton wrecker or a 10,000-pound forklift, so it could be moved from one vehicle to another in case the vehicle it was mounted on became not mission capable.
- The FWTD augments the recovery capability by performing the towing functions, leaving the wrecker free for other recovery situations, such as overturned vehicles.
- They were nice enough to call a wrecker for me but once he showed up the police and the other driver drove their separate ways.
- For instance, a maintenance mission would require a wrecker or at least a HMMWV manned with mechanics, tools, and a tow bar.
- The driver of the wrecker summoned to remove the damaged cars was also charged for not displaying his number plate.
- Along with the chase vehicles, several wreckers also will be waiting along the course.
- Police escorted the Mack wrecker, with the two-tonne chopper in tow, on its 8km journey to Sydney Airport where maintenance repairs could be conducted.
- Back on the police wrecker again; have you heard that they are not adhering to the prescribed procedures for the towing away of vehicles?
- I arrived at the scene and waited for the medical team to leave and the fire department and highway patrol to finish before I could start the job of loading what was left of this mangled vehicle onto the back of my wrecker.
- Several police officers were on the scene and a wrecker was called out to remove illegally parked vehicles.
- A wrecker to take the car that same distance cost $300.
- I have weighted the recovery team with not only ambulances and a physicians assistant, but also a wrecker or a CH - 47 with a maintenance team to recover the vehicle.
- Lanes one and two of the motorway were closed for about an hour while two wreckers were used to drag the lorry from the ditch.
3historical A person on the shore who tries to bring about a shipwreck in order to profit from the wreckage. Example sentencesExamples - This also allows her to examine those peculiarities of current and shoreline that make stretches of water like the Pentland Firth such rich pickings for local wreckers.
- So many ships have foundered along this coast, driven onto its reefs by storms or lured there by wreckers ' lights, that pieces from Spanish galleons still wash up with the tide.
- It may look benign on a calm day, but the North Devon coast is a wrecker's paradise.
- Quoyle learns about his ancestors, who were pirates and wreckers, gets a job as a reporter on the local rag and meets Wavey Prowse who teaches the children at the school.
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