MOT
a road vehicle inspection (UK)
TRANSLATION
MOT = TÜV (MOT = Ministry of Transportation) --- GOOGLE INDEX MOT: approximately 21,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
One in five new cars in Britain fails its first MOT according to research from a motoring website.
(BBC News)
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Thousands of cars face being scrapped as a result of tougher MOT rules that have just come into force to include safety checks on a raft of electronics that have been introduced in recent years.
(The Guardian)
(BBC News)
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Thousands of cars face being scrapped as a result of tougher MOT rules that have just come into force to include safety checks on a raft of electronics that have been introduced in recent years.
(The Guardian)
Did you
know?
MOT (also written MoT)
abbreviation for Ministry of Transportation
pronounced "em oh tee"
- a test that all UK road vehicles more than three years old have to pass each year in order to prove that they are safe to drive
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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The Ministry of Transport test - usually abbreviated as MOT test or simply MOT - is an annual test of vehicle safety, roadworthiness and exhaust emissions required in Great Britain for most vehicles over three years old used on any way defined as a road in the Road Traffic Act of 1988.
The name derives from the Ministry of Transport, an obsolete government department that is one of several ancestors of the current Department for Transport. Although the ministry no longer exists, the term MOT lives on.
MOT certificates are currently issued in Great Britain under the auspices of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), an agency of the Department for Transport. The test and the pass certificate are often referred to simply as the MOT.
MOT is also used as a generic term for a general inspection or check as this passage from a Guardian newspaper article shows: "Teachers will have to undergo MOTs every five years to make sure they are fit to teach, under proposals announced today designed to weed out bad teachers."
(partially adapted from Wikipedia)
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I have to get an MOT for my car tomorrow. Wish me luck."
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Thanks to Volker for suggesting today's word!
abbreviation for Ministry of Transportation
pronounced "em oh tee"
- a test that all UK road vehicles more than three years old have to pass each year in order to prove that they are safe to drive
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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The Ministry of Transport test - usually abbreviated as MOT test or simply MOT - is an annual test of vehicle safety, roadworthiness and exhaust emissions required in Great Britain for most vehicles over three years old used on any way defined as a road in the Road Traffic Act of 1988.
The name derives from the Ministry of Transport, an obsolete government department that is one of several ancestors of the current Department for Transport. Although the ministry no longer exists, the term MOT lives on.
MOT certificates are currently issued in Great Britain under the auspices of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), an agency of the Department for Transport. The test and the pass certificate are often referred to simply as the MOT.
MOT is also used as a generic term for a general inspection or check as this passage from a Guardian newspaper article shows: "Teachers will have to undergo MOTs every five years to make sure they are fit to teach, under proposals announced today designed to weed out bad teachers."
(partially adapted from Wikipedia)
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I have to get an MOT for my car tomorrow. Wish me luck."
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Thanks to Volker for suggesting today's word!
