Speeding is driving faster than the law allows. A speeding ticket, caught speeding, speeding fine.
It is one of the most common offences everywhere, and in Britain it usually carries three penalty points and a fine, with a speed awareness course offered instead for minor cases. Speed cameras and average-speed sections do most of the enforcement. Note that speeding is a strict liability offence — not knowing the limit is no defence — and that the limit applies to the road, not to the conditions, which set a lower one.
1nounspeedingDriving faster than the law allows.
“He was stopped by the police for speeding on the motorway.”
speeding is a driving offence.
Proto-Indo-European
*speh₁-
Proto-West Germanic
*spōdi — prosperity, success
Old English
spēd — success
Middle English
sped — prosperity, good luck, quickness, success
English
speed
English, today
speeding
From speed + -ing. speed comes from Middle English sped (“prosperity, good luck, quickness, success”), from Old English spēd (“success”), from Proto-West Germanic spōdi (“prosperity, success”), from Proto-West Germanic spōan, from Proto-Germanic spōaną (“to prosper, succeed, be happy”), from Proto-Indo-European speh₁- (“to prosper, turn out well”). Cognate with Scots spede, speid (“success, quickness, speed”), Dutch spoed (“haste; speed”), German Low German Spood (“haste; speed; eagerness; success”), German Sput (“progress, acceleration, haste”). Related also to Old English spōwan (“to be successful, succeed”), Albanian shpejt (“to speed, to hurry”) and Russian спеши́ть (“to hurry”), Latin spēs (“hope, expectation”), spērō (“hope”), perhaps also to Ancient Greek σπεύδω (“to urge on, hasten, press on”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA