ton
US /tʌn/
Definition
a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
The factory produces about fifty tons of steel parts every single month.
Collocations
- Easy a ton of weightreferring to a ton of weight
- Medium metric ton of cargodescribing metric ton of cargo (a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them)
- Hard tons of pending correspondencedescribing tons of pending correspondence (a large number or amount)
- Very Hard hit like a ton of bricksto hit like a ton of bricks, meaning to cause to move by striking
Learner's English edition · Curated definitions for TOEIC learners.