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Meanings of
clunker
(clunkers)
in English
An old decrepit automobile.
shed
bomb
wreck
bucket
lemon
voodoo
beater
banger
rattletrap
jalopy
Usage of
clunkers
in English
1
Last year's August sales were inflated by the U.S. government's
cash
-
for
-
clunkers
program.
2
AutoNation said that its sales rose 19 percent once the
cash
-
for
-
clunkers
impact is excluded.
3
Toyota may also benefit from the expected introduction of a
cash
-
for
-
clunkers
scheme in Japan.
4
Two or three
clunkers
will put you out of business.
5
Singer Matt Berninger's murmuring, stream-of-conscious narratives are delivered with convincing melodrama, with few
clunkers
.
6
The Focus was one of the top-selling vehicles in the
"
clunkers
"
program.
7
If that's all it was, cash for
clunkers
wouldn't be such a big deal.
8
Paris would not be the first city to ban old
clunkers
from its streets.
9
The "cash for
clunkers
"
scheme propped up the British car industry last year.
10
Bailouts and a second "cash for
clunkers
"
sales incentive are out.
11
But I had to swallow the
clunkers
as well.
12
Purchasing the worst
clunkers
might limit legal exposure, appease regulators and help end the fiasco.
13
Ford was the only domestic manufacturer with top-selling models in the
"
clunkers
"
program.
14
The goal of the "cash for
clunkers
"
legislation is to sell 1 million vehicles.
15
That makes them expensive to maintain, increasing the desire or need to replace these old
clunkers
.
16
Cash for
clunkers
,
it is called, and it is a plausible scheme - but a dreadful idea.
Other examples for "clunkers"
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clunkers
clunker
Noun
Plural
Frequent collocations
old clunkers
few clunkers
fear the clunkers
financial clunkers
occasional clunkers
More collocations
Clunkers
through the time
Clunkers
across language varieties
United States of America
Common