diesel-electric locomotive

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   a locomotive driven by the electric current generated by a diesel engine

   Synonymsdiesel-electric

   Broaderdiesel locomotive

Questions about diesel-electric locomotive

What does diesel-electric locomotive mean?

diesel-electric locomotive means "a locomotive driven by the electric current generated by a diesel engine".

What is another word for diesel-electric locomotive?

Close synonyms include diesel-electric. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diesel-electric locomotive a common word?

diesel-electric locomotive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.