central reserve

British  

noun

1. US and Austral name: median strip.  Canadian name: median.  the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway

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Example Sentences

Police, central reserve forces, the army and plainclothes officers were deployed on Khartoum's Airport Road to block the protests.

From Reuters • Jul. 19, 2022

Reserve city and central reserve city banks can use all vault cash over 1% of net demand deposits, v. the current 2%, in meeting reserve requirements.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nations also need a new medium of exchange to replace the dollar as the world's central reserve currency.

From Time Magazine Archive

But concern grew among opposition leaders when officials in Delhi ordered some 200,000 central reserve police and members of the paramilitary border-security force to the countryside�a week before the elections�officially to maintain law and order.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rifles were to go to Copped Hall, and the Seaforths to form the nucleus of a central reserve of Militia and Volunteers, which was being established just north of Gaynes Park.

From The Invasion by Le Queux, William