Main meanings of juggernaut in English

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juggernaut¹

Pronunciation /ˈdʒʌɡənɔːt/

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noun

1A huge, powerful, and overwhelming force.
‘the juggernaut of public expenditure’
- ‘He described the development, which could start as early as 2007, as ‘a huge juggernaut heading this way’.’
- ‘The Local Government forced amalgamation juggernaut is on its way.’
- ‘People round the world look at the US and see a powerful, war-hungry juggernaut.’
- ‘The two economic juggernauts justified their outright rejection of the proposal by citing past token concessions.’
- ‘No third parties stand a chance against the two juggernauts.’
- ‘They continue to resist the corporate juggernauts that routinely flatten talent into the pap of pop.’
- ‘The corporate juggernauts remain untoppled, the patriarchy is restored.’
- ‘Tan explores growing unease about the power of brands and of corporate juggernauts.’
- ‘The juggernauts of consumerism and affluenza are upon us and we need to start somewhere now.’
- ‘If everyone believes you're a political juggernaut, the theory goes, then you will become a political juggernaut.’
- ‘Cemeteries remain largely untouched by the juggernaut of change.’
- ‘To me, it seems frankly incredible that France could have imagined that they could somehow have stopped the juggernaut.’
- ‘In Britain, at least, stupidity seems to be an unstoppable juggernaut.’
- ‘They are dangerous, but it's because they are reckless and corrupt not because they are a political juggernaut.’
- ‘I never thought about it as a juggernaut, and I never thought about it as my career.’
- ‘But the reality is that the juggernaut just keeps rolling on and on.’
- ‘Now that I know how to make the camera phone work, I am going to be an unstoppable juggernaut of stupid pictures.’
- ‘It took Dutch farmers some two years to make their case in Brussels, however the EU juggernaut is revving up at this stage.’
- ‘By saying no, the French and Dutch certainly slowed the European juggernaut.’
1. 1.1British A large, heavy vehicle, especially an articulated lorry.
  ‘the juggernaut thundered through the countryside’
  ‘Misha kept the map under her arm and walked back over to the black juggernaut, the Polish lorry driver climbing back into his cab.’
  ‘It whizzes up steep hills with brio and remains stable as it passes coaches and juggernauts.’
  ‘Now the juggernauts and caravans are thundering up again from the south coast on their extra lanes.’
  ‘Try riding around Woolwich with juggernauts thundering along and get the feel of real danger.’
  ‘At the southern end, within earshot of juggernauts thundering along the Embankment, there is a wild area with flowering shrubs and rare peonies.’
  ‘They have put traffic calming islands in the road, but lorries just swerve round them like juggernauts.’
  ‘No heating to 1,500 degrees centigrade, no cross-channel ferries, no juggernauts polluting the countryside as they thunder through the days and nights - this would be real recycling!’
  ‘I had been stuck behind juggernauts on the A9, and was 45 minutes late.’
  ‘I want to see if I can discover a route into work that avoids the juggernauts, mums and commuters on the main road.’
  ‘Chandler and his control team were commandeering juggernauts to block off the dock piers one at a time.’
  ‘He and Mike crossed back to the petrol station, watching with dismay as the black juggernaut turned a corner out of sight.’
  ‘Swearing under his breath, he stopped the juggernaut and stepped out, taking the keys and pulling the door to.’
  ‘The black juggernaut with its fourteen wheels drove past, all lit up in the accumulating darkness.’
  ‘It was the lorry driver she saw yesterday, both by the given description of the driver and the juggernaut.’
  ‘It also helps explain all those juggernauts streaming up the M74 and the A1 from the Channel ports and the mushrooming of distribution depots off every Scottish motorway.’
  ‘Residents of a street blighted by a stream of juggernauts have given a slightly disbelieving welcome to Swindon Council's decision to close the road to through traffic.’
  ‘He said that in the pre-bypass days the continuous flow of huge juggernauts through the centre virtually blocked out daylight into his pharmacy.’
  ‘We've been fighting for two years now to stop these huge juggernauts negotiating this short stretch of road which has a 90 degree bend.’
  ‘She added: ‘We get huge juggernauts just 12 inches from our fence, its ludicrous.’’
  ‘This was actually what the proprietor said to them when he wandered out of his office - a converted trailer from a huge juggernaut.’
  heavy goods vehicle, juggernaut