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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
diesel-electric is a noun meaning "a locomotive driven by the electric current generated by a diesel engine". It carries one recorded sense.
a locomotive driven by the electric current generated by a diesel engine
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diesel-electric come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.