heavy-duty

comparative heavier-duty · superlative heaviest-duty

1. Designed to withstand hard usage without breaking; hard-wearing.

   The cars are constructed to the normal B.R. standard coach specifications and mounted on heavy-duty B.R.2 type bogies with B.T.R. rubber vibro-insulators on the bearing springs.

   1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222

   Antonyms: light-duty

2. informalVery serious, intense, or demanding.

   Summit still has to ... summit some final steps before it can start crunching heavy-duty science.

   2017 September 11, Matt Simon, “The Astonishing Engineering Behind America's Latest, Greatest Supercomputer”, in Wired

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   Stewart has 18 years of programming experience, and he's one of only a handful of people at the St. Petersburg computer consulting company who can handle such heavy-duty programming. Such skills can earn a programmer of Stewart's caliber about $70,000 a year.

   2001 January 8, Michael Braga, “Prepackaged programming”, in The St. Petersburg Times

   No matter how great a football prospect is, they’re often only gradually exposed to the rigors of heavy-duty competition.

   2021 October 8, Joel Drucker, “In an All-American battle, Anisimova shows Scott the ropes”, in Tennis