Noun: conduit
Pronunciation: (kon-dyoo-ut)
Conduit meaning: A passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass.
Synonyms: aqueduct, duct, passage, waterspout, tube
Quotations: Russ Hagen – We have not had a long history of doing that. It’s just been the last couple of years. Being involved in public policy allows our members to express opinions and provide a conduit of public discussion.
Thomas Kikta – There should be a conduit by which a talented musician gets his music out to his fans and we all make money. A lot of labels don’t give residuals. We will. We will give the artists the luxury of how to represent themselves. They are going to dictate what they want to do.
Neal Hoss – Having students as employees of the Police Department is, by itself, a communications tool. Students are often our best conduit to getting information to other students.
Peggy Fletcher – We want to kind of be the conduit for these businesses to get to know each other and share ideas on promoting tourism. And educate them on how they can help the chamber and the Tourist Development Council better track what is being spent in the county.
Todd Goldsmith – There is a little bit of a weather delay but not much. The electrical conduit is continuing to get installed and this will give the electrician time to get a little bit ahead in the project. That is a good thing.
Sample sentences:
- The computers were connected through a system of conduits.
- Arms dealer has served as a conduit for intelligence data.
- She saw that the conduit was choked with lot of rubbish.
- This will lead to Singapore acting as a conduit to foreign investment in India.
- It’s our conduit for sharing information they gathered from suppliers on through to the engineering community.
- The commission would be a conduit to our ultimate goal, which is to get federal funding.
- Banks are the conduit for the economy. We’re the connection between the savers and the borrowers.
- The jobs fund acts as a conduit and a catalyst for sustainable development initiatives in the state.
- For the people on the Queen Charlotte Islands, it’s their only conduit to the mainland for groceries, medical supplies and goods and services. A lot of stuff moves on the water.
- All the dealings with studios are so contentious. They’re very, very longstanding rivals, but they need each other to survive. Theaters don’t control their destiny because they don’t control the product. They’re just the conduit.