transmission belt

collocation in English

meaningsoftransmissionandbelt

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transmission
noun
uk
/trænzˈmɪʃ.ən/us
/trænˈsmɪʃ.ən/
the process of broadcasting or sending out something by radio or television, on the internet, etc., or something that is broadcast or sent ...
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belt
noun
uk
/belt/us
/belt/
a strip of leather or material worn around the waist to support clothes or ...
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(Definition oftransmissionandbeltfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftransmission belt

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As we have suggested, the state is relegated to becoming simply atransmissionbeltfor transnational capital.
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Such policies do indeed render the state atransmissionbeltfor international capital.
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The concept of the state as atransmissionbeltrests on the policies adopted by liberalising countries.
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According to one influential line of thinking, the state has become the disciplining spokesman of transnational capital, a 'transmissionbelt' for economic globalisation.
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The purpose is to assess to what extent the state is best understood as a 'transmissionbelt' for transnational capital or as a ' facilitator ' for development.
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The strategy has meant that in essence the state has become atransmissionbeltfor large-scale transnational capital in the hope that this will foster development.
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They will, however, have to seize that responsibility and not regard themselves simply as atransmissionbelteither for complaints from schools to me, or for money going into schools.
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The government was highly centralized and totalitarian in nature, and for all intents and purposes acted as merely atransmissionbeltfor the party.
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The corporation is thetransmissionbeltof much of our saving, prosperity, and progress.
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It was officially defined as the nation politically organized in essence, the state was atransmissionbeltfor the party.
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The press provided thetransmissionbeltby which these organizations sent information to their representatives in the general public.
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Newspapers and other periodicals of the day were the central institutional transmission belts, connecting out-of-state election results to in-state voters soon to go to the polls.
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In 1983 the company started selling aramide power transmission belts.
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The company is an international manufacturer of conveyor and power transmission belts (flat belts) made of synthetic materials.
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The papers were, however, information transmission belts, so people would try to decipher what was going on by reading them.
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