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highway system

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meanings of highwayand system


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highway
noun[C]
uk /ˈhaɪ.weɪ/ us /ˈhaɪ.weɪ/
a public road, especially an important road that joins cities or ...
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system
noun
uk /ˈsɪs.təm/ us /ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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Examples of highway system


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Winters are long, mountain passes can prove treacherous, and the limited interstate highwaysystem forces reliance on secondary roads.
Since the early 1930s, the development of the national highwaysystem took priority over the railroad and followed the same northward orientation.
You can imagine taking over a prison, but how do you seize control of an entire highwaysystem?
The changes should therefore allow more economical vehicle design and transport of goods without adverse effects on the highwaysystem or on the environment.
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Those statistics are designed to produce general information about accidents rather than to provide complete information about accidents at specific points in the highwaysystem.
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There are heavy arrears of work to be done on this and all other aspects of our highwaysystem.
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The reason for introducing the grants in 1919 was the need to reconstruct the highwaysystem to meet the requirements of increasing motor traffic.
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How can we expect to get the highwaysystem of this country in proper shape when this kind of thing goes on?
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Does he agree that the only way of relieving congestion on that single carriageway bottleneck in the national highwaysystem is by dualling it?
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I agree entirely that we want to make the fullest and most efficient use of the highwaysystem.
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It has provided an enviable inter-state highwaysystem which is probably the best in the world.
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We are all the time trying to improve our highwaysystem and so are the local authorities.
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We regard this as a very important step in our plans to improve the highwaysystem of the country.
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For example, our highwaysystem was originally a purely local matter.
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That does not seem to suggest that there will be some underloading of the highwaysystem.
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Was lighting considered as being part of the highwaysystem that would go into the county areas?
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We are told it is to investigate the total cost of the highwaysystem including the regulation of traffic.
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No informed person now contests the imperative and urgent need for the reconstruction and development of our highwaysystem.
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At the same time, a highwaysystem is something on which money can be spent almost without limit.
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Is one to look upon the needs of the highwaysystem of today, or is one to look ahead?
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