multi-laneadj.
/ˈmʌltɪleɪn/, U.S. /ˌməltiˈleɪn/; see also multi- comb. form. Of a road, road bridge, etc.: having several lanes in each direction. Also in figurative context.
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1952 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 172/2 This mirror is very important in traffic and on multilane highways, for it shows a car that's close behind you or just about to pass.
1961 Times 12 Dec. 14/3 A conservative British driver might envisage a multi-lane nightmare in a wonderland of flyovers and freeways.
1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. viii/5 Vancouver's west end, looking northwards over the multi-lane bridge.
1979 Sunday Star (Toronto) 18 Mar. (City Suppl.) 19/1 Freeway patrols of as many as 30 men clean up sand and debris that have accumulated over winter along multi-lane highways.
1994 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Feb. c1/5 I'm..going to buy some stocks like Time Warner that have a multilane highway to the future.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- to bring up an animal on the finger
- to bring up arrears
- to bring up lost ground
- to bring up on the finger
- to bring up the rear
- to bring up the rear arrear
- to bring up to the bullring
- to bring up with a round turn
- to bring upon the lee
- to bring witness
- to bring word
- to bring write word
- to bring your heads together
- to bring, call, come, stoop to lure
- to bring, call, come, stoop to one's lure
- to bring, call, come, stoop to the lure
- to bring, carry more sacks to the mill
- to bring, carry sacks to the mill
- to bring, come, etc, to an upshot
- to bring, come, etc, to the upshot
- to bring, come, fall, etc into disfavour
- to bring, come, grow into, go out of fashion
- to bring, drive to scorn
- to bring, drive, put, reduce to extremity or extremities