right of way
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.67 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The right to proceed first in traffic, on land, on water or in the air. Also in metaphorical senses.
Uncountable
noun
A strip of land or alignment where portions of a roadway, railway, power line, or other utilities and their associated structures and facilities is located or passes acquired through eminent domain or expropriation.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "Even when you have the right of way, you must take action to avoid a collision if another boat fails to give way."
- "2000, "Countryside and Rights of Way Act (2000) (c.37)" (UK), II.48(4), “restricted byway” means a highway over which the public have restricted byway rights, with or without a right to drive animals of any description along the highway, but no other rights of way."
- "Meronym: permanent way"
- "Phillips granted a right-of-way to the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1873."
- "The rail might still buckle when it's extremely cold. A signals box, that's a metal box on the side of the right of way, might still overheat. So we need to make sure that our operational capacity to respond to those potential disruptions and address them as quickly as possible is a really robust part of our operations. Rail buckling is kind of part of the business in some capacity. That's what we hear from other transit agencies working in the South for example, with extreme heat."
- "New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans a rail line on an unused right of way of the Long Island Rail Road between JFK and Penn Station to whisk passengers to midtown Manhattan in twenty minutes."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.