dozer

noun (1)

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doz·er | \ ˈdō-zər

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plural dozers

Definition of dozer

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: a tractor-driven machine usually having a broad horizontal blade for moving earth : bulldozer sense 2 The sound of dozers droned in the distance.— Margo Sorenson … at times he was assigned to walk beside bulldozers and help guide them. Five people worked each dozer, he told me—the operator up in his cab, a person at either end of the blade, and two others at the sides.— John McPhee

dozer

noun (2)

plural dozers

Definition of dozer (Entry 2 of 2)

: someone who dozes One of parenting life's little ironies is that babies sleep even less well when they're over-tired. By all means, limit naps if you've a diehard day-time dozer on your hands, but always… make sure that you're not denying him the day-time sleep he really needs.— Helen Brown The readers read, the dozers dozed, the workaholic mother-to-be breathed hard over her keyboard.— Lindsley Cameron

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Synonyms for dozer

Synonyms: Noun (1)

sleeper,
slumberer

Examples of dozer in a Sentence

Noun (1) the crash abruptly wakened the dozers on the bus

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The dozer driver had been hired to demolish the house to make way for a parking lot, but the historical society was in negotiations with the Smithsonian Institution to save the Colonial building. — John Kelly, Washington Post, "This might be Washington’s oldest house, but it came from New England," 28 Nov. 2020 For the next several hours, teams will work to close off a control line between a safe dozer line on a ridge and the active fire still burning. — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, "California Wildfires: Live updates from August 29-30," 1 Sep. 2020 On the ridgeline, a private dozer operator — at work on a construction project at a nearby winery — offered his help. — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, "Hennessey Fire’s trail from Napa County to Vacaville," 3 Sep. 2020 His daughter posted on Facebook: Anybody got a dozer? — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, "Napa locals go ‘cowboy,’ bulldozing firebreaks to save wineries as resources wane," 28 Aug. 2020 The dozer is there because the Olympics need wide-open land on which to build stadiums, parking lots, swimming pools and media centers. — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, "For the Olympics, poor communities in host cities are regularly displaced. For the Rio 2016 games, one village’s resistance sparked a global question: Should they be abolished?," 6 July 2020 In the 1980s and ’90s many mining companies turned to mountaintop removal, a hyper-efficient mix of explosives, draglines and dozers that undoes hundreds of millions of years of geology in minutes. — Washington Post, "Kentucky was devastated for decades by mountaintop removal. Now scientists have figured out a way to undo the damage — one tree at a time.," 13 Feb. 2020 After stopping forward progress of the fire, Cal Fire canceled its call for dozers to respond to the scene. — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, "150 firefighters stop progress of 40-acre Moraga fire that prompted evacuations," 10 Oct. 2019 Wildland firefighters have at their disposal more than 600 pieces of specialized equipment, including engines, water tenders and dozers. — David L. Bernhardt, The Denver Post, "Bernhardt: As a mild fire season comes to an end, here’s how the Department of the Interior prepared for the worst," 23 Sep. 2019

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