power takeoff

1. 1.

   a device that transfers power from an engine (as in a tractor or other motor vehicle) to another piece of equipment (as to a pump or jackhammer)

   SynonymsPTO

   Broaderdevice

Questions about power takeoff

What does power takeoff mean?

power takeoff means "a device that transfers power from an engine (as in a tractor or other motor vehicle) to another piece of equipment (as to a pump or jackhammer)".

What is another word for power takeoff?

Close synonyms include PTO. 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 power takeoff a common word?

power takeoff 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.