road builder

collocation in English

meaningsofroadandbuilder

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road
noun[C or U]
uk
/rəʊd/us
/roʊd/
a long, hard surface built for vehicles to ...
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builder
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbɪl.dər/us
/ˈbɪl.dɚ/
a person whose job it is to ...
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(Definition ofroadandbuilderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Aroadbuilder, if convenient and if he finds it financially desirable, can ignore part of the assessment.
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We are putting more emphasis on its role as the operator of the network rather than theroadbuilder.
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By age sixteen, he was an accomplished horseman and stonemason androadbuilder.
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This established his reputation as aroadbuildersince other engineers had believed it could not be done.
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In many city councils the road builders, road repairers, borough surveyors and directors of technical services—to give them their proper and suitably salaried title—reign supreme.
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The fault was certainly not that of the road builders and arose from the difficulty of acquiring one essential piece of land.
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Yet he would get compensation only if the road builders trampled on his daffodils: he would get nothing for loss of value.
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Not only was a fine team of road builders disbanded, but the bulk of the machinery now lies idle.
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I know that resources are short, but the sooner that the planners and road builders are put to work on this stretch of road the better.
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There are clear dangers from an environmental point of view that private road builders may find themselves in a privileged position in relation to environmental problems and planning consents.
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They have not demonstrated the commercial advantages of toll roads, nor have they said what commercial road builders would do that present road builders are not required to do.
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How will road builders assess the level of tolls when it is difficult to know in advance what will be the likely demand for new roads?
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Modern road builders have less need to seek out easy geological conditions.
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This sum would go to the road builders, who would hire more workers and distribute the money as wages and profits.
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The purpose of the enterprise was to sell construction equipment to road builders.
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The club still often host road builders and other construction workers in the accommodation above the clubhouse.
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Contractors and road builders found them very useful.
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