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Meanings of beltway in English

Catalan
ronda
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A highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center.

        ronda
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        Examples for "bypass"
        Examples for "bypass"
        1
        Technology is improving our ability to bypass some of these problems, however.
        Radio NZ
        2
        However, some rogue companies have found sneaky ways to bypass these measures.
        The South African
        3
        Several conditions require subcutaneous colon bypass surgery in the esophageal diseases treatment.
        Pubmed
        4
        It's a good thing I had that quintuple bypass surgery last year.
        Are you there, vodka? it's me, chelsea
        5
        He suffered a minor heart attack following a bypass operation in 2002.
        BBC
        1
        Boris Johnson, while resisting pressure from Conservative AMs to do away with the congestion charge, is hatching plans to revive the ringway concept below ground.
        The Guardian
        2
        By 1973 it was rejecting the "reckless and irrelevant Tory plan for ringways" which it said would only attract more traffic and congestion.
        The Guardian
        3
        It said the move should increase the value of the Ringway site next to Manchester Airport by around £3.5 million, representing 5p per share.
        The Irish Times
        1
        The second brownfield site is easily accessible using the existing ring road.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The Minister for Transport has opened the new Limerick southern ring road.
        The Irish Times
        3
        They had blocked the ring road with logs, bricks and burning tyres.
        Reuters
        4
        Heavy smog shrouds the second ring road in Beijing, 21 January.
        The Guardian
        5
        A more integrated, more equal city could rise up, inside the ring road.
        The South African
        Usage of beltway in English
        1
        The most adventurous thing he did was to drive home on the beltway.
        Man in the Middle
        2
        Finney's house was a post-beltway newcomer with yellow siding and fake black shutters.
        Devil Bones
        3
        Building Americans feature has established tremendous credibility inside the beltway.
        The new yorker
        4
        Route 12 is a scenic beltway that encircles Jeju Island.
        Sword of god
        5
        Exiting west onto the beltway, he went farther into Virginia.
        A Brewing Storm
        6
        It is a sort of beltway that runs all the way around the Raft.
        Snow Crash
        7
        For a midlevel bureaucrat, Clifford was surprisingly well connected and inside the beltway loop.
        Man in the Middle
        8
        Small streets and even smaller alleys lead from this beltway into the various ghettos.
        Snow Crash
        9
        So I drove around the beltway until I hit I-70.
        The Apocalypse Codex
        10
        Perhaps you heard on the evening news that Merrill Benedict was murdered on the beltway.
        The President's Assassin
        11
        But the compelling evidence of change isn't found inside the Westminster beltway but beyond it.
        The Guardian
        12
        But he said that's the price "for entry inside the beltway."
        Wired
        13
        It's never going to come from inside the beltway.
        The new yorker
        14
        Anyone's free to cruise around the beltway, but people are more protective of their neighborhoods.
        Snow Crash
        15
        In the nineties, the construction of an outer beltway morphed Pineville into a bedroom burb.
        Devil Bones
        16
        Most officers lived comfortably in suburban cul-de-sacs and townhouses in the orbit of the Washington beltway.
        Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
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        Beltway through the time