highway system

collocation in English

meaningsofhighwayandsystem

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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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(Definition ofhighwayandsystemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Winters are long, mountain passes can prove treacherous, and the limited interstatehighwaysystemforces reliance on secondary roads.
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Since the early 1930s, the development of the nationalhighwaysystemtook priority over the railroad and followed the same northward orientation.
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You can imagine taking over a prison, but how do you seize control of an entirehighwaysystem?
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The changes should therefore allow more economical vehicle design and transport of goods without adverse effects on thehighwaysystemor 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 thehighwaysystem.
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There are heavy arrears of work to be done on this and all other aspects of ourhighwaysystem.
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The reason for introducing the grants in 1919 was the need to reconstruct thehighwaysystemto meet the requirements of increasing motor traffic.
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How can we expect to get thehighwaysystemof 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 nationalhighwaysystemis by dualling it?
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I agree entirely that we want to make the fullest and most efficient use of thehighwaysystem.
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It has provided an enviable inter-statehighwaysystemwhich is probably the best in the world.
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We are all the time trying to improve ourhighwaysystemand so are the local authorities.
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We regard this as a very important step in our plans to improve thehighwaysystemof the country.
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For example, ourhighwaysystemwas originally a purely local matter.
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That does not seem to suggest that there will be some underloading of thehighwaysystem.
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Was lighting considered as being part of thehighwaysystemthat would go into the county areas?
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We are told it is to investigate the total cost of thehighwaysystemincluding the regulation of traffic.
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No informed person now contests the imperative and urgent need for the reconstruction and development of ourhighwaysystem.
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At the same time, ahighwaysystemis something on which money can be spent almost without limit.
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Is one to look upon the needs of thehighwaysystemof today, or is one to look ahead?
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