Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - juggernaut
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Juggernaut
juggernaut
(juggernauts) 1. A juggernaut is a very large truck. (mainly BRIT) N-COUNT 2. If you describe an organization or group as a juggernaut, you are critical of them because they are large and extremely powerful, and you think they are not being controlled properly. The group became a sales juggernaut in the commodity options business. N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval
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1.
noun Etymology: Hindi Jagannath, literally, lord of the world, title of Vishnu Date: 1841 1. chiefly British a large heavy truck 2. a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path an advertising ~ a political ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 esp. Brit. a large heavy motor vehicle, esp. an articulated lorry. 2 a huge or overwhelming force or object. 3 (Juggernaut) an institution or notion to which persons blindly sacrifice themselves or others. Etymology: Hindi Jagannath f. Skr. Jagannatha = lord of the world: name of an idol of Krishna in Hindu mythol., carried in procession on a huge cart under which devotees are said to have formerly thrown themselves ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. инд. Джаггернаут, статуя Кришны, вывозимая на ежегодном празднестве Juggernaut car —- джаггернаутова колесница 2. (j.) безжалостная, неумолимая сила the Juggernaut of war —- колесница войны 3. (часто j.) оружие большой разрушительной силы, мощный военный корабль и т. п. 4. могущественная группа; очень сильная команда (футбольная, шахматная и т. п.) 5. (j.) джаггернаут, многоосный грузовик, особ. для международных перевозок ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
noun 1) indian; myth. Джаггернаут (одно из воплощений бога Вишну) 2) сокрушительная сила (война, крупный военный корабль или танк; кровавая акция тоталитарного режима и т.п.) (тж. Juggernaut car колесница Джаггернаута) ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~ n 1 BrE a very large vehicle, that carries goods over long distances; semi (3) AmE 2 something large and powerful that destroys everything it meets ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1638, huge wagon bearing an image of the god Krishna, especially that at the town of Puri, drawn annually in procession in which (apocryphally) devotees allowed themselves to be crushed under its wheels in sacrifice. Altered from Jaggernaut, a title of Krishna (an incarnation of Vishnu), from Hindi Jagannath, lit. "lord of the world," from Skt. jagat "world" + natha-s "lord, master." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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