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waterway

[ waw-ter-wey, wot-er- ]

noun

  1. a river, canal, or other body of water serving as a route or way of travel or transport.
  2. Shipbuilding. (in a steel or iron vessel) a depressed gutter at the edge of the deck inside the bulwarks, used especially when the decking is wooden.
  3. a channel for vessels, as a fairway in a harbor.


waterway

/ ˈ·Éɔ˳Ùəˌ·É±ðɪ /

noun

  1. a river, canal, or other navigable channel used as a means of travel or transport
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of waterway1

before 950; Middle English; Old English ·Éæ³Ù±ð°ù·É±ð²µ. See water, way 1
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A BBC team visited the site and saw soot, dying vegetation and polluted waterways around.

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Back at the White House, President Donald Trump insisted the US needed Greenland to guarantee "peace of the entire world" and that its waterways had "Chinese and Russian ships all over the place".

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Canada and Greenland, both early targets of interest for the administration, occupy key Arctic waterways that are being contested by other global powers, like Russia and China.

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At a different cluster of makeshift plants in Wada, just outside Mumbai, a team from BBC Indian Languages saw soot, dying vegetation and polluted waterways around the sites.

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“It’s about protecting our water supply, and it’s a common-sense measure that simply restores the protections that our waterways have always enjoyed since 1948.â€

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