A Swedish aerospace and defence company, which formerly also produced automobiles.
Used in a Sentence
saab
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for saab.
Editorial note
I wonder how the F-35 performs against other current generation fighters like the Eurofighter or Saab Gripen.
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Quick take
A Swedish aerospace and defence company, which formerly also produced automobiles.
Meaning at a glance
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A Saab car or plane.
Initialism of sex assigned at birth.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for saab.
noun
A Swedish aerospace and defence company, which formerly also produced automobiles.
noun
A Saab car or plane.
noun
Initialism of sex assigned at birth.
Example sentences
I wonder how the F-35 performs against other current generation fighters like the Eurofighter or Saab Gripen.
I roll around in a 15 year old Saab 93 which has a book price of around 300 quid.
No doubt a result of all those Saab engineers finally infecting Volvo.
There are also mechanical solutions to this, old Saab cars for example required the gear to be in reverse before you can remove the key.
Similarly Saab has made both cars and fighter jets.
I once had an old car, a Saab 900 SPG (160 hp!), which completely died when I was going at speed on I-78 in the left lane.
I can attest to that, my old Saab performed terribly (performance and fuel economy) during the time I was running around with a pierced and corroded exhaust mid-section flexi-joint.
This was introduced because in the 1960s and 70s a lot of skilled workforce (several %, tens of thousands of people) emigrated to Sweden, in particular to work for Volvo, Saab and other industries.
Iirc Saab pioneered heated seats because one of their engineers had colon cancer and Saabs are pretty common in Sweden, but I'd still wager that's an urban legend because the heating is done with DC current and to reliably alter the contents of a tape you'd need a lot more of magnetic field to overcome the resistance of the magnetic particles to change direction (remanence) and you'd want that field to alternate.
Now just let me alter those statements for you and explain to the swedish workforce why unionen et'al was one of the big reasons we now have a reality of losing volvo, saab and sony-ericsson from swedish borders.
Quote examples
Saab is originally an acronymn for "Svenska Aeroplan Aktie Bolag", which means Swedish airplane incorporated.
Saab did a lot more than just car manufacturing so the brand lives on in a bunch of different places, it was "just" the Saab Automobile bit that went under.
Proper noun examples
There are lots of big companies too such as Ikea, Ericsson, Saab, etc etc.
The first time was a fair time back when I had a cheap old Saab.
The video says this made by Swedish car producer Saab.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use saab in a sentence?
I wonder how the F-35 performs against other current generation fighters like the Eurofighter or Saab Gripen.
What does saab mean?
A Swedish aerospace and defence company, which formerly also produced automobiles.
What part of speech is saab?
saab is commonly used as noun.