hot-work steel

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   an alloy steel that remains hard at a red heat; used to make metal-cutting tools

   Synonymshigh-speed steel

   Broadertool steel

Questions about hot-work steel

What does hot-work steel mean?

hot-work steel means "an alloy steel that remains hard at a red heat; used to make metal-cutting tools".

What is another word for hot-work steel?

Close synonyms include high-speed steel. 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 hot-work steel a common word?

hot-work steel 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.