lifting device

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   a device for lifting heavy loads

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Questions about lifting device

What does lifting device mean?

lifting device means "a device for lifting heavy loads".

Is lifting device a common word?

lifting device 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.