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motorway

[ moh-ter-wey ]

noun

British.
  1. an expressway.


motorway

/ ˈ³¾É™ÊŠ³Ùəˌ·É±ðɪ /

noun

  1. a main road for fast-moving traffic, having limited access, separate carriageways for vehicles travelling in opposite directions, and usually a total of four or six lanes US namessuperhighwayalso Canadianexpressway
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of motorway1

First recorded in 1900–05; motor + way 1
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Two children, their father and his partner were unlawfully killed when they crashed head-on with a car being driven the wrong way on a motorway by a suicidal man, a coroner has ruled.

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"We have to find a cash buyer that's willing to buy a lovely cottage next to a motorway and I'm sorry, but those buyers are very, very few and far between."

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A former RAF pilot took his own life and killed four others when he drove the wrong way on a motorway while almost four times over the drinking and driving limit, an inquest heard.

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He said he had noticed them parked there after initially driving past them, so he turned off the motorway and came back to see if they needed any help.

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It is part of a £317m project to add extra lanes to improve safety and cut congestion where the motorway meets the A3.

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