Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

passive provision

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English

Syllables: pas-sive pro-vi-sion
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Empty or currently unused features of infrastructure, deliberately planned during construction in order to facilitate later upgrades.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"At the Isle of Dogs there will be passive provision for a second ticket hall."
"[…]work to install a new flyover at Hitchin, which takes Cambridge-bound trains over the East Coast Main Line (ECML), included passive provision for the central section of East-West Rail to link into the ECML."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does passive provision mean?: Empty or currently unused features of infrastructure, deliberately planned during construction in order to facilitate later upgrades.

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