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high-occupancy vehicle lanes

high-occupancy vehicle lanes is the plural of high-occupancy vehicle lane.

Meaning of high-occupancy vehicle lane

Noun

high-occupancy vehicle lane (plural high-occupancy vehicle lanes)

  1. A restricted traffic lane reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and at least one passenger, including carpools, vanpools, and transit buses.
    • Last month, Brandy Bottone of Plano, Texas, was pulled over by a Dallas sheriff’s deputy and given a ticket for driving alone in a high-occupancy vehicle lane.2022 July 12, Luke Vander Ploeg, “Can You Drive Alone in the H.O.V. Lane if You’re Pregnant? A Post-Roe Quandary.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2022

Questions about high-occupancy vehicle lanes

What is high-occupancy vehicle lanes the plural of?
High-occupancy vehicle lanes is the plural of high-occupancy vehicle lane.

Words near high-occupancy vehicle lanes in the dictionary

  1. high-nellies
  2. high-nelly
  3. high-nosed
  4. high-occupancy vehicle
  5. high-occupancy vehicle lane
  6. high-occupancy vehicle lanes
  7. high-occupancy vehicles
  8. high-octane
  9. high-paid
  10. high-pass
  11. high-passes

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