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schenectady

/skəˈnɛktədi/

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What does schenectady mean?

proper noun

  1. A city, the county seat of Schenectady County, New York, United States.

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/skəˈnɛktədi/

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“I have more friends in New York than in Schenectady--more gentleman friends; and more young lady friends too,” she resumed in a moment.
Henry JamesDaisy Miller: A StudyProject Gutenberg ebook #208
The next step came with the creation of the great General Electric Company of to-day, a combination of the Edison, Thomson-Houston, and Brush lighting interests in manufacture, which to this day maintains the ever-growing plants at Harrison, Lynn, and Schenectady, and there employs from twenty to twenty-five thousand people.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820