noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
divided highway
Highway Code
highway patrol
highways and byways (= the important and less important parts )
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a scholar exploring the highways and byways of Russian music
the Highway Code (= the official rules about driving in Britain )
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You will be tested on your knowledge of the Highway Code.
three-lane motorway/highway/road
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
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Concession to operate coal mines, oil fields, federal highways and three railway lines were also to be auctioned.
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The conservatives also succeeded in rejecting an affirmative action program aimed at hiring more minority subcontractors on federal highway projects.
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I want my share of state and federal highway funds.
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States that failed to comply faced the threat of losing federal highway funds.
interstate
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This goal of the interstate highway system had been frustrated by varying drinking ages among the States.
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It was an interstate highway , up on stilts, that flew over the houses and through the burning air.
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Some favor the interstate highway model, with government construction, ownership, and maintenance.
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Upstairs alone, Petey could fling open everything and build an interstate highway .
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In the 1950s, we launched construction of the vast interstate highway system.
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Strategists viewed the trail as an interstate highway , a monolithic artery that could be severed.
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The Eisenhower-era interstate highway system is crumbling and buckling and full of noisy, angry trucks.
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From the interstate highway which runs nearby, nothing about this bluff looks any different from thousands of others.
main
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Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes.
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The alternative was to ride along the main highways , which tend to hug the flat land along valley bottoms.
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The Jaguar slowed down and he pulled off the main highway into a side road.
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The quake caused landslides along main highways in central and western El Salvador.
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Electronic tolls could replace fuel and vehicle taxes as the main form of highway revenue.
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With a series of sharp whistles, the cowboys steer the last few stray cattle off the main highway .
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Security forces blocked the miners from advancing towards the main Istanbul-Ankara highway .
major
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Radical urban restructuring involving major highway schemes was at an end.
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Malls and major highways are favorite spots.
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Michelle had done this before; she knew it was close to a major highway headed upstate.
new
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The layout of roads was a technical matter for surveyors and engineers, though new highways had town-planning significance.
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One example Luchian cited involves adjustable speed-limit signs on the new highways .
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They will carry over 1000 sections of a new four-lane highway across the river Lagan.
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He said he hoped a new highway bill could be passed by Easter.
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They were protesting against a new highway code and a points-system driving licence.
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Government expenditures can reabsorb these resources in the production of guided missiles, military aircraft, and new schools and highways .
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But outside these specially protected areas concern mounted at the architectural ravages of commercial development, particularly in association with new highway requirements.
public
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In suburbia, however, the scourge of the skips tends to descend on the public highway in spring and summer.
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The same applied to traditional football except that in this case legislation merely banned the game from the public highway .
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So just what are the rules, regulations and guidelines governing the depositing of skips on the public highway ?
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Playing any instrument was taboo, but playing it along a public highway - shocking.
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All citizens have the right to use the public highway .
■ NOUN
authority
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Currently highways authorities and main services providers are allowed to cause chaos by digging up roads whenever and wherever they wish.
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The petition also wants the highways authority to leave in place the signs prohibiting heavy vehicles over 7.5 tons.
construction
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Assessment of highway construction materials at source, during production and construction processes and under working environments.
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Governments are shifting the way they fund highway construction .
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Governments spend hundreds of billions of dollars this way every year-on health care, on highway construction , on building maintenance.
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But giant telecommunications firms that have already pledged tens of billions for highway construction favor a less regulated market.
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For example, gasoline taxes are typically earmarked for the financing of highway construction and repairs.
department
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The highways department has also ruled out police-style speed detector guns because of inaccuracy.
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The cameras will be operated by the highways department of Essex County Council and Essex police.
information
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Sort of like a toll plaza on the information highway .
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In short, get ready for another wild ride on the information highway in 1997.
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The information highway is a rough road at best.
patrol
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The police highway patrols use white Porsche cars.
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It may be called the state police, state troopers, militia, the rangers or the highway patrol .
robbery
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At the end highway robberies , riots and an unspecified sense of comeuppance is what we are left with.
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The constable left in charge of Burford was reluctant to take any action, even when Seb reported the highway robbery at Swinbrook.
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This brother-in-law was eventually hanged for highway robbery .
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A matter of murder-more than one murder, highway robbery and probably the rape of a young girl too.
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She says it's highway robbery .
safety
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Subject to congressional approval, it proposed increased spending on highways , mass public transport systems, bridge improvement and highway safety programmes.
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That kind of freewheeling discussion is the norm in other realms where public health is the issue, such as highway safety .
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He instructed the Transportation Department to develop a plan to promote highway safety .
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When Congress acted, highway safety advocates predicted the higher speed limits would lead inevitably to more fatalities.
state
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Then a Montana state highway cop, with no sirens going.
system
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This goal of the interstate highway system had been frustrated by varying drinking ages among the States.
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Far from complete, the I-way is quickly acquiring new on-ramps and even small highway systems .
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In the 1950s, we launched construction of the vast interstate highway system .
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The Eisenhower-era interstate highway system is crumbling and buckling and full of noisy, angry trucks.
■ VERB
build
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A vast monument is being built 400m from the highway where Rodrigo had his fatal accident.
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Serrell was given a contract to build a highway suspension bridge over the Niagara between Lewiston and Queenston.
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Work is already under way on 72 of these centres, which will be built along the highways of the country.
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Upstairs alone, Petey could fling open everything and build an interstate highway .
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So I was seduced into becoming a volunteer on the grand project of building a highway through the interior of the country.
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The California Department of Transportation negotiated franchise agreements with four private consortia to build toll highways .
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When Congress appropriates money to build a highway , it is entitled to insist that the highway be a safe one.
cross
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The moment the provincial boundary was crossed the washboard highway flattened into smooth, perfectly maintained blacktop.
drive
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I watched her drive out on to the highway , thinking many things which are better kept to myself.
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But real-world driving conditions on highways in the South Coast Air Basin are different.
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I stop at the drive-in bank then I drive out the highway to the lake to pick up my date.
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Truly fun to drive on highway trips.
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It is over-inclusive be-cause it stops teenagers from drinking even when they are not about to drive on interstate highways .
stop
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No, the bus stops on the highway and I have to walk across that damn prairie all by myself.
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The motorist slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer rig whose driver had stopped on the highway shoulder, said Capt.
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He persuaded me during an extended conversation we had one evening while stopped along the highway near Mayer, south of Flagstaff.
travel
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To be sure, what travels on the electronic highways is limited, often flawed, and occasionally deceptive.
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You must travel across this highway , whether you are an organization purchasing supplies or a consumer ordering a movie on demand.
turn
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A few miles further on we turned abruptly off the highway and the Range Rover sped into the desert leaving landmarks behind.
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He turned on to the highway , speeding away from the city.
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Six kilometres short of Poltava we turn aside from the highway into a colony for homeless vagabond children run by Anton Makarenko.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I got onto the highway and drove as fast as I could.
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There's a rest stop somewhere on Highway 61.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A collection of Arizona tales organized by the highway you drive to see their settings.
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After all, Woodforde's on the highway into the city.
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Associated with this is the cross comparison of highway and rail investment on the same cost benefit basis.
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One story had Mix trailering his famous steed as he sped along the highway .
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That kind of freewheeling discussion is the norm in other realms where public health is the issue, such as highway safety.
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The four-lane highway curved and straightened and curved.
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The governor will unveil an extraterrestrial-themed highway sign, and a panel discussion by UFOlogists will ensue.
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Travellers today can cross the Alps in less than a day due to the excellent highways and railroads.