streetlight

[ street-lahyt ]

/ ˈstritˌlaɪt /

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noun

a light, usually supported by a lamppost, for illuminating a street or road.

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Origin of streetlight

First recorded in 1615–25; street + light¹

Words nearby streetlight

street fighter, street food, street furniture, street hockey, street justice, streetlight, street luge, street ministry, street money, street name, streetology

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How to use streetlight in a sentence

For example, piezoelectric sensors in roads could detect the motion of vehicles to track traffic or to light upcoming road signs or streetlights as needed.
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After the city agreed to pull the funding for the streetlights, for example, we learned that it’s not actually possible to turn them off completely.
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Local governments have routinely acquired and deployed new technologies like smart streetlights without fully considering how the information collected could be used, or the biases embedded in the technology.
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In San Diego, the streetlight system became exclusively a crime-fighting tool after the City Council defunded it.
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We revealed how law enforcement targeted people for daring to talk back, monitored protesters from streetlights, harassed transit riders, and fought transparency.
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Oh, it may have been a trick of the streetlight there, it may have been my imagination.
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But under the first streetlight he was stopped by a grimy boy.
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British Dictionary definitions for streetlight

streetlight

streetlamp

/ (ˈstriːtˌlaɪt) /

noun

a light, esp one carried on a lamppost, that illuminates a road, etc

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streetlight

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British Dictionary definitions for streetlight

streetlamp