A word from the ledger
Heavy-duty
Two listings print heavy duty
or heavy-duty
, and every one of them is a shoe rack. None of them print a weight capacity.
Words in quotation marks are the sellers’ own, quoted from the listings
2
Listings that print the word
0
Also state a weight capacitynone printed
Print the word and the figure
No listing prints both
Print the word only
Where it is printed
- Standing Shoe Racks
- 2
- Home Office Desks
- 0
- Bookcases
- 0
- Home Office Desk Chairs
- 0
- Dressers & Chests of Drawers
- 0
Spellings counted
heavy-duty · heavy duty
Who defines it
No document linked here defines heavy-duty for home furniture. The FTC’s guide for small business says an advertiser needs a reasonable basis for a claim before the ad runs, and describes that basis as objective evidence. What the evidence for this word would be, the listings do not say.
What the listings do with it
On both listings the word attaches to a material: heavy duty iron
on one, heavy-duty steel
on the other. It tells a reader what the seller thinks of the metal and nothing a reader could measure.
Both do print a count, only not a load. One gives 12 or more pairs
and the other 6 to 9 pairs
. A pair count is not a weight, and this site does not turn one into the other.
Heavy-duty sits exactly where a capacity figure would go. Across the catalog four listings print a weight capacity, and none of them is a shoe rack. The racks that use the heaviest-sounding word on the site sit in a category where no listing prints the figure the word points at.
What the word does not promise
A duty. The word names a class of work without saying what the work is or how heavy it gets.
The figure behind this word has its own count: Weight capacity.
Narrowing this word to a single category is the job of Word Check.
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