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Definition of tractor noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

tractor

noun
 
/ˈtræktə(r)/
 
/ˈtræktər/
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  1. a powerful vehicle with two large and two smaller wheels, used especially for pulling farm machines
    • a farmer on his tractor
    • the sound of a tractor ploughing in the field nearby
    Topics Farmingc1, Transport by car or lorryc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • agricultural
    • farm
    • lawn
    verb + tractor
    • drive
    • use
    tractor + verb
    • plough/​plow
    • work
    tractor + noun
    • driver
    • shed
    • tyre/​tire
    preposition
    • on a/​the tractor
    phrases
    • a tractor and trailer
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  2. (North American English) the front part of a tractor-trailer, where the driver sits
  3. Word Originlate 18th cent. (in the general sense ‘someone or something that pulls’): from Latin, from tract- ‘pulled’, from the verb trahere.
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