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dual carriageway
dual carriageway
noun
US and Canadian name: divided highway.a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a central strip of turf, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of dual carriageway1
Example Sentences
Work to turn the road into a full dual carriageway began when Tony Blair was prime minister in 2002.
"People were finding their way around by torchlight. It was quite surreal seeing the view from my window totally black especially as I live next to a dual carriageway," he said.
Drivers heading into Hull in the early hours of 1 November spotted a young girl stood in the slow lane of the A63 dual carriageway.
Now there is talk of a dual carriageway, better rail services, new homes, new reservoirs; a splurge of busyness to transform the region into "Britain's Silicon Valley".
The baby boy suffered serious injuries when the vehicle left the dual carriageway and struck a tree near Grantham, Lincolnshire, at 22:50 GMT on Thursday.
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