automaker
/ˈɔtoʊmˌeɪkɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person or company that manufactures automobiles; usually used to refer to a large corporation such as General Motors, Toyota, and so on.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: carmaker, truckmaker"
- "With such competition looming, one might suppose that U.S. automakers would embrace tighter domestic efficiency requirements to help them gird for the challenge."
- "By overpaying these engineers, the expenses of the domestic automakers went up as well."
- "Becoming president of the UAW when he did, Bieber inherited the task of organizing the plants that Japanese automakers and suppliers had begun building in America in the early 1980s to circumvent the “voluntary quotas” the Japanese government had placed on exports to the United States."
- "If Trump wants American automakers to sell more cars across the Atlantic, slapping tariffs on German cars wouldn't help get that done, experts say."
- "For the whole year, the exotic automaker sold 7,430 cars and SUVs, down 9.5% compared to 2019. But the last quarter of 2020 was the best in the Italian supercar maker’s history and its order banks are already filled for the first nine months of 2021, Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann said."
Etymology
Etymology tree English auto Proto-West Germanic *mak Proto-West Germanic *-ōn Proto-West Germanic *makōn? Old English macian Middle English maken Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English maker English maker English automaker From auto + maker.
Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
automaking
carbuilder[phantonym]]>