Road works

/ɹˈəʊd wˈɜːks/

/ɹˈoʊd wˈɜːks/

[noun]

Road works

[NOUN]

the work that is done to build or repair a road

Examples

1. And all of those readings, you get these really, really high readings along the edge, and that's simply people throwing tin cans and relieving themselves over the wall for a good couple of decades, modern road works and things like that.

2. And the only way that kicking the can down the road works is that it makes the overall problem bigger.

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