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hydro - 3

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1916, OED Evaluation: N/A

Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.

ExampleMeaning
After high-school I worked for a local farmer for one summer. ... For the summer 'til October then I started- I put some job applications and I got three jobs opportunities at the time. Um, I had interviewed Hydro at Telephone and at ah (inc)-Stores.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
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Well if you're living in a mining town I always say it's good to have money and experience. I- I- I used to work and make sure. I worked in the tunnels at Niagara-Falls. ... Yeah we put two tunnels on the Niagara-Falls for the hydro.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
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Interviewer: And what does he do? Speaker: Preston was with hydro. Interviewer: Uh-huh. And it says here you were the queen of fashion.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
Yeah. But he used to work with hydro you-see? At one point. William did.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
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... and we have solar-panels. My uncles in the- my uncle works for Gravity-S-- well he like runs it for the Canadian- ... Part, Gravity-Sun-Power and it's like solar-panels and the energy you make for hydro, you sell to hydro and they give you like a bill like not a bill, but a check every month for the hydro you make.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
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That's the baby, yeah. And she's with a nice guy, a young guy. Ah, works for Hydro. And they're going to be transferred out of Thunder-Bay. She works with animals in a veterinary hospital clinic.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
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... "Oh we'll just kind of go around and pick up whatever kind of garbage industries we can- we can find. Kind of like T-C-I, which is ah you-know they- they recycle the ah the old transformers from hydro. They're all contaminated with P-C-B. ... I mean no one else in Canada wants that business in their background, but oh here in Kirkland-Lake, we'll take that. ... I-mean why can't we built furniture or-something or- or I-don't-know.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
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... about nineteen-fifty, I went to Ottawa and I worked with the R-C-M-P in the supply stores. ... I was there for sixteen years and two months and ah at that time the Hydro was- was buying land off us down there and ah we flood the damn in- in Arnprior here and they wanted to- so I quit Ottawa and started farming again.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Minden is a little bit more giving, but they're not as territorial like you get more fitting in because of the fact you got the hydro, police station and all this. Interviewer: Yeah, that's what Martin was saying, they're more cosmopolitan? Is that what you said?
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
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... remember ah few years ago when we had a bad tornado out east? ... He went out there to help ah cut the fallen trees for the Hydro and-that-sort-of-thing. So he just carried on from there and kept working in the tree business.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
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... he got a job sharpening steel there for the railroads in- on- on the K-and-P at that time, but then he got off to hydro after that, and then he went to mines and- you-know, up where, where- up where (clears throat) you don't say a word about that Jesse, up- up where I was born, in- with- in- in ah, Schumacher, because Shi-- ah, Miss- Miss, ah, Shania-Twain ...
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
... if I had have stayed with Ontario-Hydro instead of staying- ... So there I'm saying- if I had have stayed with Hydro, I'd have been retired forty years ago. Eh? ... and now here I am, starving to death for Christ's sake.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
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... like we had three university- one in college, and the one in college, her grant, she paid it back in practically no time, didn't she? 'Cause she got a job at um Hydro, O-P-G in Pickering. And she's been there ever since. Thirty years she's been there. So yeah, and her grant was the smallest of any of the kids.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
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But, then, and I got older, then I n-- I went working for the hydro, ah, I went for the M-T-O, I was a wingman for a couple winters, you-know, part-time.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).
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... I remember when the paving crew came- ... And I remember when the hydro went through past our farm and everybody else got hydro but we didn't- ... 'Cause we couldn't afford it. (laughs)
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).