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au·to·mo·tive | ˌȯ-tə-ˈmō-tiv 
2 : of, relating to, or concerned with self-propelled vehicles or machines
Examples of automotive in a Sentence
The store stocks automotive parts.
Recent Examples on the Web Mining, construction and parts of the North American automotive supply chain were allowed to resume operations this week.
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Anchorage Daily News, “Even where virus accelerates, lockdowns are cracking open,” 22 May 2020 The firm’s steel division was already wrestling with a global glut and a sputtering German economy before demand took a further hit as the coronavirus outbreak spread in March, leading to automotive and other factory shutdowns.
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William Wilkes, Bloomberg.com, “Thyssenkrupp to Break Up German Giant in Fight for Survival,” 19 May 2020 The Obama administration used three IAMs, including DICE, to determine a dollar value that government should use in cost-benefit analyses for proposed new regulations, including the 2011 tightening of automotive fuel-economy standards.
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Gilbert E. Metcalf, Scientific American, “How to Set a Price on Carbon Pollution,” 19 May 2020 In calling itself and its suppliers pivotal to the restart of Italian industry, the company noted that the automotive sector is equal to about 6.2% of Italian gross domestic product and 7% of the country’s manufacturing employment.
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Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, “Italian government might back big loans to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles,” 17 May 2020 With multiple automakers coughing up more than $5.5 million per 30-second spot during the United States’ marquee television event, EV enthusiasts hailed the milestone as a harbinger for the automotive sector in the coming decade.
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Nathaniel Horadam, Ars Technica, “Are electric vehicles doomed? We don’t think so, despite poor sales,” 27 Apr. 2020 The automotive sector, which has already endured more than two years of a sales recession, now faces its biggest crisis since the 2008 global financial crisis, according to GlobalData, an analytics company.
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Eoin Mcsweeney, CNN, “1.1 million autoworkers are off the job in Europe,” 1 Apr. 2020 In the automotive sector, for example, manufacturers cut about 278,400 jobs, or about 29% of their collective workforce from January 2008 to January 2010, automakers and suppliers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, “It may feel like 2008 all over again, but here’s how the coronavirus crisis is different,” 11 Mar. 2020 Nissan has long been a value leader in automotive, but style?
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cleveland, “Affordable Nissan Sentra makes your pulse accelerate, until you hit the gas pedal (review),” 9 May 2020
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Anchorage Daily News, “Even where virus accelerates, lockdowns are cracking open,” 22 May 2020 The firm’s steel division was already wrestling with a global glut and a sputtering German economy before demand took a further hit as the coronavirus outbreak spread in March, leading to automotive and other factory shutdowns.
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William Wilkes, Bloomberg.com, “Thyssenkrupp to Break Up German Giant in Fight for Survival,” 19 May 2020 The Obama administration used three IAMs, including DICE, to determine a dollar value that government should use in cost-benefit analyses for proposed new regulations, including the 2011 tightening of automotive fuel-economy standards.
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Gilbert E. Metcalf, Scientific American, “How to Set a Price on Carbon Pollution,” 19 May 2020 In calling itself and its suppliers pivotal to the restart of Italian industry, the company noted that the automotive sector is equal to about 6.2% of Italian gross domestic product and 7% of the country’s manufacturing employment.
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Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, “Italian government might back big loans to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles,” 17 May 2020 With multiple automakers coughing up more than $5.5 million per 30-second spot during the United States’ marquee television event, EV enthusiasts hailed the milestone as a harbinger for the automotive sector in the coming decade.
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Nathaniel Horadam, Ars Technica, “Are electric vehicles doomed? We don’t think so, despite poor sales,” 27 Apr. 2020 The automotive sector, which has already endured more than two years of a sales recession, now faces its biggest crisis since the 2008 global financial crisis, according to GlobalData, an analytics company.
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Eoin Mcsweeney, CNN, “1.1 million autoworkers are off the job in Europe,” 1 Apr. 2020 In the automotive sector, for example, manufacturers cut about 278,400 jobs, or about 29% of their collective workforce from January 2008 to January 2010, automakers and suppliers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, “It may feel like 2008 all over again, but here’s how the coronavirus crisis is different,” 11 Mar. 2020 Nissan has long been a value leader in automotive, but style?
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cleveland, “Affordable Nissan Sentra makes your pulse accelerate, until you hit the gas pedal (review),” 9 May 2020
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au·to·mo·tive | ˌȯ-tə-ˈmō-tiv
Kids Definition of automotive
: of or relating to automobiles
an automotive parts store
