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ton

US /tʌn/

noun Target · B2 Sản xuất & chất lượng

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 weight
    referring to a ton of weight
  • Medium metric ton of cargo
    describing 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 correspondence
    describing tons of pending correspondence (a large number or amount)
  • Very Hard hit like a ton of bricks
    to hit like a ton of bricks, meaning to cause to move by striking

Learner's English edition · Curated definitions for TOEIC learners.