(now, chiefly, in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.
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(chiefly, UK, Irish, South Africa, Canada, Mid-Atlantic US, countable) A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.
89.2 million tons of RAP are used annually in new asphalt pavement construction in the United States.
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(now, chiefly, North America) A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface.
...that took them to a brief rise of marble stairs that should've put them on the third-and-a-halfth floor if it'd been anywhere but Hogwarts, and then it was back to tiled stone pavement again, and...
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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