service road

noun

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When not responding to calls, the HEART team patrols the service area — which stretches for a few blocks between Congress Avenue and the Interstate 35 service road — and gets to know people experiencing homelessness there. Serena Lin, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Apr. 2024 Jude Buffum Illustration : Jude Buffum Every weekday at 5:00 a.m., a nondescript gray van rolls down the underground service road beneath the French National Library, in Paris, and arrives at a svelte glass skyscraper soaring above the bustling Seine River. IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2011 He was reportedly found on a service road, supporting himself with two walking sticks and a cut-up sleeping bag wrapped around his legs for warmth. Jennifer Hauser, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024 Redesign the new street that would border Lafayette Park communities from the current service road approach to a neighborhood street. Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for service road 

Word History

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of service road was in 1921

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“Service road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/service%20road. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

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