Mainspring

noun

Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.nounThe principal spring of a clockwork mechanism, which drives it by uncoiling.

2.nounThe most important reason for something (Cf. spring "origin of something" (literary) (often in the plural) the springs of her ambition).

"My daughter is the mainspring of my life."

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