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passive provision

passive provision noun: empty or currently unused features of infrastructure, deliberately planned during construction in order to facilitate later upgrades.

Noun

passive provision (uncountable)

  1. Empty or currently unused features of infrastructure, deliberately planned during construction in order to facilitate later upgrades.
    • On occasions such emergency escape infrastructure may be used for peak period traffic, or may incorporate passive provision for later conversion to regular use should rising traffic levels warrant this.2000, Julian Ross, Railway Stations: Planning, Design and Management, Architectual Press
    • At the Isle of Dogs there will be passive provision for a second ticket hall.2007 November 14, Great Britain: Parliament: Select Committee on the Crossrail Bill, Crossrail Bill: first special report, session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral evidence, 17 January to 23 March 2006, The...

Questions about passive provision

What does passive provision mean?
Passive provision means empty or currently unused features of infrastructure, deliberately planned during construction in order to facilitate later upgrades.
What part of speech is passive provision?
Passive provision is a noun.

Words near passive provision in the dictionary

  1. passive matrix
  2. passive matrixes
  3. passive participle
  4. passive participles
  5. passive photolocation
  6. passive provision
  7. passive radar
  8. passive resistance
  9. passive resister
  10. passive resisters
  11. passive restraint

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