MOT
(UK, countable, by extension) Any regular checkup.
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(UK, countable, by extension) Any regular checkup.
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(UK, historical) (a former name of the Department for Transport) still in use relating to the MOT test it made compulsory in 1961, and three grades of aggregate it specified for road, path and sports court subbase layers.
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(UK, countable, colloquial) An MOT test (an annual test of roadworthiness for most UK motor vehicles over three years old, or four years old in Northern Ireland).
I can’t drive over this week, the car is in for its MOT.
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