highway maintenance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhighwayandmaintenance
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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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maintenance
noun[U]
uk/ˈmeɪn.tən.əns/us/ˈmeɪn.tən.əns/
the work needed to keep a road, building, machine, etc. in ...
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(Definition ofhighwayandmaintenancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This platform, integrated with a manipulator, is designed for use inhighwaymaintenanceand construction, which is a generally unstructured and congested environment.
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The resulting mobile manipulators have been deployed in numerous application arenas-ranging from gantry-mounted manipulators on the shop floor tohighwaymaintenancerobots to robotic earth-moving excavators to free-flying satellite-repair robots.
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We have frequently urged local highway authorities to spend up to the overall provision forhighwaymaintenance.
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Expenditure on the maintenance of public rights of way will generally be included as part of local highway authorities' total expenditure onhighwaymaintenance.
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It will also be the first time that increases inhighwaymaintenance, other services and capital financing blocks have been passported.
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They were providing cuts in services such ashighwaymaintenance.
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It contains a provision to reducehighwaymaintenancefrom £2·6 million to £0·6 million.
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The capital allocations forhighwaymaintenancewere calculated using a formula applied on a consistent basis to all authorities.
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In 1983 the local authority associations published a code of good practice forhighwaymaintenance.
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We intend to present the results and conclusions of the appraisal to the standing committee onhighwaymaintenance.
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It is difficult to see from where such funds would come except fromhighwaymaintenancebudgets or increased rates.
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First, it is suggested that there should be a reduction in expenditure onhighwaymaintenance.
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Local authority standard spending assessments include, where appropriate, adequate provision forhighwaymaintenance.
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A few local authorities have sent me communications advocating thathighwaymaintenanceshould be made primarily a national charge.
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There is a feeling, however, that the notional figures proposed for taking money out of further education and out ofhighwaymaintenanceare overstated.
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There is also the question ofhighwaymaintenance.
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The survey has been carried out each year since 1977 by the standing committee onhighwaymaintenance.
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Only last month we announced the largest everhighwaymaintenanceprogramme costing £164 million in total.
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In finalising this year's transport supplementary grant settlement, we realise that many counties face difficulties withhighwaymaintenance.
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Information is not held to estimate annualhighwaymaintenancecosts due to corrosion alone.
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