highway department

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meaningsofhighwayanddepartment

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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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department
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/dɪˈpɑːt.mənt/us
/dɪˈpɑːrt.mənt/
a part of an organization such as a school, business, or government that deals with a particular area of study ...
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(Definition ofhighwayanddepartmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is not a matter of the police or thehighwaydepartmentdealing with it—they cannot get through the traffic in the first place.
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Sometimes it is because the plans are contrary to the local plan or because thehighwaydepartmentor the water authority objects.
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It was bought by the city council'shighwaydepartmentin 1968 and was bricked up in 1969.
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I drove a dump truck for thehighwaydepartmentand when it would rain you did nt have to go to work.
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According to thehighwaydepartment, the storm destroyed 16 bridges which left 200 communities isolated from surrounding areas.
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In 1940, he was convicted of using the mails to defraud; the particulars involved a scheme to sell trucks to the statehighwaydepartment.
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At the time, it was the longest bridge built under the auspices of thehighwaydepartment.
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Despite the creation of ahighwaydepartmentand numerous attempts to keep politics away from road funding, the system is still flawed.
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Therefore, in 1941, the then-superintendent of the countyhighwaydepartmentstepped out of his role and presented a plan for a new airport.
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Another portion of the property now contains the town'shighwaydepartment.
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No. 2, believed the district would be larger than the statehighwaydepartmentwith 1,300 employees and an annual budget of $7,250,000.
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Some financial aid was obtained by thehighwaydepartmentfrom the federal government.
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To befit a roadside park, the statehighwaydepartmentwas asked to provide a name.
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Thehighwaydepartmenthas taken measures to re-engineer roads to avoid hydroplaning.
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Such diagrams are usually produced by ahighwaydepartment, and display features along the road, including bridges and intersecting roads.
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In mid-1930, he began working as a clerk for the statehighwaydepartment.
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The federal aid money was split between thehighwaydepartmentand the welfare department.
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In 1944, the city and county planning departments and the statehighwaydepartmentdeveloped a throughout the area.
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The animals have adapted to the changes of man by making homes in the pits that were dug by thehighwaydepartmentfor road constructions.
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Thehighwaydepartmentused this style of bridge from 1933 to 1946.
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