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Rolls-Royce

/ ˌəʊˈɔɪ /

noun

  1. Also called (informal): Rolls.a make of very high-quality, luxurious, and prestigious British car. The Rolls-Royce company is no longer British-owned

  2. anything considered to be the very best of its kind

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Rolls-Royce1

named after its designers, Charles Stewart Rolls (1877–1910), English pioneer motorist and aviator, and Sir (Frederick) Henry Royce (1863–1933), English engineer, who founded the Rolls-Royce Company (1906)
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UK Ministry of Defence funding took the company into hypersonic research with Rolls-Royce for an unmanned aircraft.

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"Rolls-Royce said it had other priorities and the UK military has very little money."

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Rolls-Royce declines to go into details about Reaction's collapse, but Mr Varvill is more specific.

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King Charles III received a Rolls-Royce as a coronation gift, an official register has revealed.

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For the coronation itself, alongside the Rolls-Royce, the Bahraini king gave Charles a decorative clock.

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