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roadworks

roadworks is the plural of roadwork.

Meaning of roadwork

Noun

roadwork (countable and uncountable, plural roadworks)

  1. The construction or maintenance done to roads.
    • The traffic jam was caused by roadwork being done during rush hour.
  2. Exercise such as running and jogging done on the roads.
    • The athlete needed to get home early to do his roadwork before it got too dark to be safe.
  3. The taking of a band on the road to perform music in different locations.
    • […] the Beatles had resigned from roadwork in the summer of '66 (much like Brian Wilson)—their tour ending, appropriately enough, in the hippie utopia of San Francisco—and turned Abbey Road Studios into their very own musical sandbox […]2010, Will Romano, Mountains Come Out of the Sky

Questions about roadworks

What is roadworks the plural of?
Roadworks is the plural of roadwork.

Words near roadworks in the dictionary

  1. roadwhore
  2. roadwise
  3. roadwork
  4. roadworker
  5. roadworkers
  6. roadworks
  7. roadworn
  8. roadworthiness
  9. roadworthy
  10. ROAH
  11. ROAHs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roadworks (page history and authors); roadwork (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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