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How to pronounce “owner-operator”
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- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of owner-operator with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Ayellet Tal
- Definition summary
- Someone who both owns and operates a piece of equipment, especially a semi-trailer truck (articulated lorry). They are a contractor; they may be a commercial carrier, but most often they provide capacity (trucks and drivers, with or without trailers or chassis) to either commercial or private carriers as a subcontractor.
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How to pronounce owner-operator
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- Someone who both owns and operates a piece of equipment, especially a semi-trailer truck (articulated lorry). They are a contractor; they may be a commercial carrier, but most often they provide capacity (trucks and drivers, with or without trailers or chassis) to either commercial or private carriers as a subcontractor.
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