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Meanings of hoover in English

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Electronic device that cleans dirt on a surface through suction.

        Portuguese
        herbert hoover
        Catalan
        herbert hoover
        Spanish
        herbert hoover

        31St President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)

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              herbert hoover
              Spanish
              hoover

              United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)

                    hoover
                    Catalan
                    passar l´aspiradora
                    Spanish
                    pasar la aspiradora

                    Clean with a vacuum cleaner.

                          passar l´aspiradora
                          Usage of hoover in English
                          1
                          Rome wants to set up a vehicle to hoover up banks' dud loans.
                          Reuters
                          2
                          Surely the Patriot Act could be used to hoover up IoT data, too.
                          Reuters
                          3
                          I have resisted Instagram as everyone says it can hoover up the hours.
                          The Irish Times
                          4
                          So it was with hoover and vacuum cleaning, or sellotape and sticky tape.
                          The Irish Times
                          5
                          But when a woman does the same, she's talking about a hoover .
                          The Irish Times
                          6
                          So you never get that my-house-is-clean feeling like after a full manual hoover.
                          Wired
                          7
                          Phones have changed the world, too; advertisers use them to hoover up our attention.
                          The Guardian
                          8
                          It could hoover up bonds more aggressively, and hand money out directly to citizens.
                          Reuters
                          9
                          Am entertaining for the weekend and N is coming round to hoover the flat.
                          The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
                          10
                          Instead, there was little more than a cursory hoover.
                          The Guardian
                          11
                          The vacuum, like a mighty hoover, sucks you in.
                          Snow Crash
                          12
                          Hoover also believes the move requires an amendment to the state constitution.
                          Reuters
                          13
                          The information played right into Hoover's Chinese water torture of the Kennedys.
                          The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
                          14
                          But I heard 'Hoover-Two' in the visitor center a few minutes ago.
                          Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
                          15
                          All had been released from the hospital by Sunday morning, Hoover said.
                          The Guardian
                          16
                          Judge Todd Hoover said he would charge the jury on Thursday morning.
                          Reuters
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                          Translations for hoover
                          Portuguese
                          herbert hoover
                          Hoover through the time