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floodway

floodway noun: an engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected.

Noun

floodway (plural floodways)

  1. An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected.
    • Since 2005 the governments of Manitoba and Canada have spent $665 million to double the capacity of the floodway and to reinforce bridges, control gates and dikes.2009 March 30, Kirk Johnson, “Permanent Flood Solutions Just Out of Reach for Fargo”, in New York Times

Forms of floodway

pluralfloodways

Origin of floodway

From flood + way.

Questions about floodway

What does floodway mean?
Floodway means an engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected.
What part of speech is floodway?
Floodway is a noun.
What is the plural of floodway?
The plural of floodway is floodways.

Words near floodway in the dictionary

  1. floodtimes
  2. floodwall
  3. floodwalls
  4. floodwater
  5. floodwaters
  6. floodway
  7. floodways
  8. floodwood
  9. floody
  10. flooey
  11. floof

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