"motor car" meaning in English

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          "word": "motorcar"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 273–274",
          "text": "Today the motor car is not taken seriously as a solution to the problems of mass transport, and the transport planners of south-east England - and the mayor of London himself, judging by his Transport Plan - think in terms of trains and underground trains in particular [...]",
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        "Alternative spelling of motorcar."
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          "motorcar#English"
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      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "trailer car"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 59",
          "text": "The 20 sets of B.W. [British Westinghouse] equipment, including motor bogies and traction motors, were refitted to 20 new motor cars, similar in design to the 1913 stock, again at the railway company's Neasden Works.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94",
          "text": "A motor car is provided with two self-ventilated series-wound G.E.C. traction motors, each having a continuous rating of 80 h.p. at 575 V. 116 A. at a field strength of 66 per cent.",
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        "Synonym of railcar (“self-propelled railway vehicle”)."
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        "(rail transport, US) Synonym of railcar (“self-propelled railway vehicle”)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "motor coach"
        },
        {
          "word": "power car"
        },
        {
          "extra": "self-propelled railway vehicle",
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          "word": "railcar"
        }
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      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
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  "word": "motor car"
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          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 273–274",
          "text": "Today the motor car is not taken seriously as a solution to the problems of mass transport, and the transport planners of south-east England - and the mayor of London himself, judging by his Transport Plan - think in terms of trains and underground trains in particular [...]",
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        }
      ],
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        "Alternative spelling of motorcar."
      ],
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          "word": "trailer car"
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          "ref": "1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 59",
          "text": "The 20 sets of B.W. [British Westinghouse] equipment, including motor bogies and traction motors, were refitted to 20 new motor cars, similar in design to the 1913 stock, again at the railway company's Neasden Works.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94",
          "text": "A motor car is provided with two self-ventilated series-wound G.E.C. traction motors, each having a continuous rating of 80 h.p. at 575 V. 116 A. at a field strength of 66 per cent.",
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        "Synonym of railcar (“self-propelled railway vehicle”)."
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        "(rail transport, US) Synonym of railcar (“self-propelled railway vehicle”)."
      ],
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          "word": "motor coach"
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          "word": "power car"
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  "word": "motor car"
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