Interstate Highway System

[ in-ter-steyt hahy-wey sis-tuhm ]

noun

1. Official_name Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. a network of U.S. highways connecting the 48 conterminous states, begun in the 1950s and estimated to carry about 25 percent of the nation's traffic: also established in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, but without physical connections to other states or territories. Compare National Highway System ( def ).

Example Sentences

And in the 20th century, the federal government built the interstate highway system, without which, say, Walmart, could not exist.

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Eisenhower and Congress worked to enact the Interstate Highway System.

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