(British, historical) An executive agency of the Department for Transport in the United Kingdom with responsibility for managing the core road network in England; superseded by Highways England.
(British, historical) An executive agency of the Department for Transport in the United Kingdom with responsibility for managing the core road network in England; superseded by Highways England.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(chiefly, Britain) A main road or highway.
(UK, New Zealand) A road built for high speed traffic, but not up to motorway standards or designated a motorway.
The standard American English term for what British drivers call a dual carriageway — a road with two or more lanes of traffic in each direction, separated by a central median or divider. It's functional, descriptive vocabulary rather than slang, but it represents one of those clean transatlantic vocabulary differences that trips people up. In the US the sign says 'divided highway ends' and everyone knows what to expect; in the UK the same concept travels under an entirely different name.
(UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Queensland, New South Wales) A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.