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MAIN LINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does main line mean?
• MAIN LINE (noun)
The noun MAIN LINE has 1 sense:
1. the principal route of a transportation system
Familiarity information: MAIN LINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The principal route of a transportation system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("main line" is a kind of...):
itinerary; path; route (an established line of travel or access)
Context examples
Well, it is all in the main line of my business.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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