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roadworks

nounB1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Roadworks are repairs that close part of a road. Delayed by roadworks.

Most of the time nothing appears to be happening, because the utility is waiting on somebody. Roadworks with nobody working are usually curing concrete or waiting for a permit.

Anna Frodesiak · CC0

Definitions of roadworks

  1. 1nounroadworksRepairs that close part of a road.B1

    “The roadworks lasted eleven weeks for forty metres of pipe.”

roadworks is work.

Where it comes from

roadwork comes from road + work.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the City

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roadworks in the wild

  • Currently there are very few sources of accurate roadworks information sites available that report on the status of current works and future works.

    Roadworks

  • The telephone number for the hotline was usually displayed on signs after sections of roadworks.

    Cones Hotline

  • The event was cancelled the following year, with organisers blaming the city's ongoing roadworks.

    Birmingham International Marathon

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.