(British) A form of civil protection (using closed-circuit television, control zones and restricted access) that effectively seals off city centres and financial districts; used in Northern Ireland an
(British) A form of civil protection (using closed-circuit television, control zones and restricted access) that effectively seals off city centres and financial districts; used in Northern Ireland and the City.
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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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(military slang, obsolete, chiefly, Britain) A corral wherein horses are exercised and riders trained.
A British term for a ring road — the circular or semi-circular highway that loops around the outside of a town or city to divert through-traffic away from the centre. Ringway is an older or more formal variant of 'ring road', associated in particular with mid-20th-century British urban planning. The word also famously attaches to Manchester's airport (formerly Ringway Airport), giving it a certain nostalgic resonance for anyone who travelled through Manchester in the last century.
(chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, UK) A circumferential highway around a town, city, or other conurbation.
(chiefly, Britain, idiomatic) To oversee a situation while attempting to remain uninvolved in it.