modern appliance

collocation in English

meaningsofmodernandappliance

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modern
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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appliance
noun[C]
uk
/əˈplaɪ.əns/us
/əˈplaɪ.əns/
a device, machine, or piece of equipment, especially an electrical one that is used in the house, such as a cooker or ...
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(Definition ofmodernandappliancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There they have everymodernappliancesuited in every way for the requirements of the members.
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I would like to see in every house of every family a real sufficiency of everymodernapplianceand convenience and assistance.
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It states that that is an important factor operating against each appliance, and is mentioned by roughly one person in four willing to consider installing amodernappliance.
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There are no plans to replace them with modern appliances.
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What will happen is that the coal saved by installing modern appliances will result in increased standards of comfort in our homes.
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A large variety of modern appliances are now available which will burn all sorts of solid fuel and will give an efficient form of heat.
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There are big economies to be made in the use of domestic house coal by modern appliances.
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It was completed and all the modern appliances were made available.
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But these modern appliances should be standardised appliances.
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Women also cared for their families—both the older and younger generations—and worked in their homes without the benefit of modern appliances.
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Their dwellings are not always the ageless symbol of the nomad, that is, the horse-drawn caravan, but increasingly modern appliances with all mod.
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These modern appliances have come into use during the last 20 years and are responsible in part for many of the problems of dampness.
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If £30 is the average cost per consumer it appears that everyone has either three very ancient gas using appliances, or about 30 modern appliances.
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But what of those forms of central heating, to which most of the modern appliances conform, which are run on gas?
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The spread of electricity and irrigation, the increased use of the motor car, the generally greater availability of modern appliances, are having their effect.
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I agree that machines and modern appliances are having their effect.
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They cannot afford to install efficient, modern appliances to take advantage of off-peak rates.
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Glasgow is producing gas in its own gas works, with the most modern appliances, the latest vertical retorts, and last year the cost was ls.
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