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service road

American  

service road British  

noun

  1. a relatively narrow road running parallel to a main road and providing access to houses, shops, offices, factories, etc, situated along its length

"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 service road

First recorded in 1935–40


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Her own relationship to the subject provides a kind of narrative service road to Mr. Lowe’s four-lane highway of ultramarathoners and their obsessions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Signs placed along a service road warn of the presence of the federally threatened California red-legged frog at Diablo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

There were also plans for an underground service road to separate VIP visitors from refuse collections, a new staff entrance, a cafe and "recreation facilities" in the basement.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

No evidence has been released by authorities detailing exactly what the 20-year-old man had planned when he entered the park via a private service road in the hours before it opened over the weekend.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

The service road cut through industrial wasteland and dead-ended at a strip mall.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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