conduit
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Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
The German sportswear giant acts as a valuable conduit to the fashion industry, helping facilitate collaborations with brands like Koché and Pleasures.
—Daniel-Yaw Miller, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
The guest list appears to have more RSVPs from global corporate titans than the weddings of Ambani’s two older children in 2018 and 2019, underscoring Reliance’s growing clout and role as conduit to the Indian economy for global tech, media and energy giants.
—Anto Antony, Fortune Asia, 1 Mar. 2024
As the outsider, and as the one holding a camera, always aware of how things are framed, Raheem is, for non-Bengali audience members, the conduit into Choton’s ancestral world.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
Rain falling on urban expanses is channeled into drainage conduits, squandered.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Creating entertaining, fun-to-watch characters that can teach empathy and hold a mirror up to the audience and become an emotional conduit for people, that’s still our guiding principle.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2024
In their view, a partnership with the United States can be a conduit for promoting human rights and political liberties, which could make their rule less secure.
—Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2024
The California Municipal Finance Authority acts as a conduit for tax-exempt bonds to finance an array of projects to promote economic development.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2024
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Word History
Middle English conduyt, condyt, cundyte "channel or pipe for conveying water, act of escorting for protection" borrowed from Anglo-French conduit, condet "channel for water, guide, escort party," (also continental Old French), noun derivative from conduit, past participle of conduire "to guide, escort," going back to Latin condūcere "to bring together, join, hire, accept a contract for" (Medieval Latin also "to lead, escort, provide a channel for [water]") — more at conduce
Note: The senses of the vernacular word conduit parallel those of Medieval Latin conductus, conductum—see conduct entry 2. The verb conduct entry 1 and the nouns conduct entry 2 and conductor all had vernacular counterparts in Middle English and early Modern English—conduiten, conduit and conduytour—taken from Anglo-French. Of these only conduit has survived in Modern English, and with the restricted sense "channel for water."
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Conduit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conduit. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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