power-operated

English

Adjective

power-operated (not comparable)

1. Electrically (or mechanically) operated.
   • 1958 April, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 275:

     Constructional features of the railbus include the use of rubber suspension for axlebox/underframe and underframe/body mountings, the use of B.U.T. power transmission equipment, many components of which are interchangeable with those on British Railways standard railcars, power-operated sliding doors, and an absence of normal sidebuffers or drawgear.

   • 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138:

     The colour-light signals and power-operated points at Waterloo are controlled from one cabin which houses three lever frames with a total of 272 working miniature levers.

References

• “power-operated”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.