coin-operated ['kɔinˏɔpәreitid]
adj.
投入硬币即发生作用的
coin-operated[ adj ]
of devices that do not operate without the prior insertion of one or more coins
<adj.pert>
a coin-operated telephone
- New York's tax-appeals division says coin-operated car washes aren't eligible for sales-tax exemptions as "laundering services." Sovereign is a Wyomissing, Pa., bank holding company with assets of $1.8 billion.
- He later ran a coin-operated machine business and worked as a furniture maker and wood sculptor.
- Other items included a huge chandelier, two coin-operated "shoot-'em-up" robotic cowboys, a life-sized fiberglass horse and a number of horse-drawn wagons, carriages and sleighs.
- New York-based WMS, which has operations in coin-operated games and casinos, said in the filing that it might increase or decrease its holdings; officials couldn't be reached to elaborate.
- There are also coin-operated Minitels available to the public at the Bibliotheque Public Information at Centre Georges Pompidou. Time: French time is one hour ahead of Britain (Greenwich Mean Time) and six hours ahead of New York.
- With a turnover of more than Pounds 3m and employing some 30 people, the company's present product line developed out of coin-operated devices.
- More than 125 coin-operated telephones were set up around the western suburbs, the company said.
- LOCAL CALLS from coin-operated pay phones and transmissions of digital data no longer would be exempt from the communications excise tax under the Bush budget proposals.
- The toys which resemble push-button, coin-operated telephones and come with plastic coins in various sizes and colors and were sold for children under age three.
- Mr. Hirsch, a former peddler of coin-operated dry-cleaning equipment, is no stranger to conflict.