- present participle of plumb.
plumbing
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The investment bankers who want to be really rich go into private equity instead, where they end up running plumbing companies in Mississippi.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
"Then we apply those techniques to these explosive eruptions, and we are able to reconstruct the plumbing system with an unprecedented precision."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
The attacks damaged the operational plumbing of finance: communications networks, settlement systems, trading records, clearing banks, exchanges, brokers and the people who made them work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
He painted bedrooms, took charge of the block’s recycling efforts and fixed countless plumbing problems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Working plumbing was scarce, and the lack of air-conditioning tormented scientists and engineers trying to function in the baking heat of California’s Central Valley.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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