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How to pronounce excavator in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms digger, power shovel, shovel
Type of machine
Has types dredge, steam shovel, backhoe
Derivation excavate
Type Words
Type of workman, working man, working person, workingman
Derivation excavate

Examples of excavator

excavator
Must be able to competently operate hydraulic excavator, bulldozer, scraper etc.
From the jobview.monster.com
Must be able to operate without training a loader, backhoe, excavator and dozer.
From the jobview.monster.com
He then worked for a year as an excavator operator in the Tagil industrial area.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This high-reach excavator can reach up to 110-feet and can carry up to 8,000 lb.
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Her late husband, George, an excavator, didn't take to farming, but Goodrich did.
From the dailyherald.com
Work would be done with a mini-excavator, a trail cat and hand work, she added.
From the sltrib.com
The excavator is designed to consume 25 percent less fuel than standard models.
From the bloomberg.com
Just behind her, the large excavator chewed into one of the four-story buildings.
From the usatoday.com
An excavator was digging pieces of broken concrete from the sand along the beach.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • A workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying
  • Power shovel: a machine for excavating
  • Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, bucket and cab on a rotating platform (known as the "house"). The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. ...
  • A person who excavates; A curette used to scrape out pathological material; A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe; digger
  • (Excavators) A CAT (caterpillar) is a commonly seen excavator. It has a cab that rotates and a bucket that is attached to a long hydraulic arm. CATs are used to lift and move soil and other material.
  • (Excavators) Birds, such as woodpeckers, that make their own cavity to nest in (see also Adopters).
  • (Excavators) Used to eliminate (usually) soft, rotten decay within the mouth.
  • A hydraulically operated, boom equipped digging machine, most commonly track mounted, which can build full-benched logging roads with little to no sidecast loss.
  • Any person that engages in or is preparing to engage in the movement of earth.