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raceway

American  
[reys-wey] / ˈreɪsˌweɪ /

noun

  1. Chiefly British. a passage or channel for water, as a millrace.

  2. a racetrack on which harness races are held.

  3. Electricity. a channel for protecting and holding electrical wires and cables, especially a metal rectangular tube used for such purposes.

  4. Machinery. race.

raceway British  
/ ˈreɪsˌweɪ /

noun

  1. another word for race 1

  2. a racetrack, esp one for banger racing

  3. another word (esp US) for race 1

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of raceway

First recorded in 1820–30; race 1 + way 1

Example Sentences

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The main grandstands, front straight, pit road and pit road suites, which are all that remain of the old raceway, are to be incorporated into the new racing venue.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2024

Production typically occurs in so-called raceway ponds beneath the open sky or in photobioreactors chambers, where the organisms grow in glass tubes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2024

The two are honorary starters for Sunday’s race - “Kurt will wave the green flag two-thousandths of a second after Ricky,” raceway president Kerry Tharp quipped - and will keep treasuring their moment.

From Washington Times • May 12, 2023

He had spent the day watching the race at the new Miami International Autodrome, a temporary raceway that loops around Hard Rock Stadium, just north of the city.

From New York Times • May 13, 2022

After my breakfast I took in the place and went to the raceway where the first piece of gold was discovered.

From The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days by Ivanowski, Sigismond de

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