Usually means: Force used to drive machinery.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. motive power: Merriam-Webster
  2. motive power: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. motive power: Collins English Dictionary
  4. motive power: Vocabulary.com
  5. motive-power, motive power: Wordnik
  6. motive power: Wiktionary
  7. motive power: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Motive power, motive power: Dictionary.com
  9. Motive power: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. motive power: Rhymezone
  11. motive power: FreeDictionary.org
  12. motive power: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. motive power: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motive power: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motive power: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (motive power)

noun:  (sometimes figurative) The power that enables something to move.
noun:  (rail transport, collectively) The locomotives that operate on a railway.

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