bypass
noun
a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
by-pass
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a variation of
bypass.
Example Sentences
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Contractor Paul Chesterman said the road was a lot busier because of the new by-pass and drivers trying to avoid roadworks on it.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024
"It's on the by-pass so it's not going to create any traffic in the town center. McDonald's are pretty good at keeping their sites clean. I don't see it as a problem."
From Fox News ● Sep. 17, 2019
The NCI’s so-called by-pass budget is generally seen as a “wish list” by Congress, but lawmakers have yet to match its requested amount with actual appropriations—and the pattern is likely to continue this year.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 18, 2015
Their mother had triple by-pass surgery in 2010 and is in fragile health.
From Forbes ● Feb. 23, 2015
The conduit enters at 589.00 m. above datum, and the gate-house contains the valves for controlling the inlet pipe to the reservoir, the by-pass, overflow, scour-out pipe, and the copper screens.
From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by George Robert Graham Conway
