idle
Example Sentences
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GM said this week it would idle the Detroit factory where it builds the big electric trucks that Magna supplies, due to weak demand.
Uploads and downloads were fast and didn’t idle.
From Salon
Taiwan has at least three months of oil stockpiled, and it is turning on some of its coal-fired plants, 40% of which are typically idle, and buying coal from Indonesia and Australia.
From Barron's
While it cannot be substituted directly in LNG plants, countries can run existing coal power plants at a higher capacity or bring idle units back online.
From Barron's
Meanwhile, the two U.S. battery plants GM spent billions of dollars to build are idle, unable to make the cheaper batteries that the automaker needs for the $30,000 vehicle.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
