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Definition of Sewerage
1. Noun. Waste matter carried away in sewers or drains.
Generic synonyms: Waste, Waste Material, Waste Matter, Waste Product
Terms within: Effluent, Sewer Water, Wastewater
2. Noun. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
Generic synonyms: Drain, Drainpipe, Waste Pipe
Group relationships: Sewage System, Sewage Works, Sewer System
Definition of Sewerage
1. n. The construction of a sewer or sewers.
Definition of Sewerage
1. Noun. A sewer system. ¹
2. Noun. A common solecism for sewage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sewerage
1. sewage [n -S] - See also: sewage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sewerage
Literary usage of Sewerage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Environmental Performance Reviews by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Committee on Environmental Policy (2006)
"3.2 sewerage connections and wastewater treatment Throughout the review period,
Austria steadily increased the installed capacity of its wastewater ..."
2. Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1910)
"Furthermore, sewerage is regarded as strictly a sanitary measure which cannot
... While a sanitary sewerage system is impossible without water works, ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"Mr. Philip S. I'ugh, for appellant: An ordinance which provides that the city
shall do the work and furnish the materials for making sewerage connections up ..."
4. Sewage Disposal in the United States by George W. Rafter, Moses Nelson Baker (1893)
"Suggestions for sewerage Committees, with regard to the Engineering Control of
the work, ... sewerage Disposal:—with special reference to Purification by ..."
5. The Engineering Index by John Butler Johnson, Henry Harrison Suplee, Johannes H. Cuntz, Charles Buxton Going (1896)
"sewerage SYSTEM of Itni-s.-is G.-neral and detailed description of the old sewers
... 22, 1895, pp. 122 and 121. sewerage. Report I'pon the sewerage »f the ..."
6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1908)
"For convenience, the subject of sewerage will be divided into two parts: the ...
A good sewerage system should provide for the prompt removal of all water ..."
7. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1886)
"THE sewerage, SURFACE DRAINAGE, SEWAGE DISPOSAL, AND HOUSE DRAINAGE OF THE MARKET
... sewerage. Market Harborough and Little Bowden are for the most part ..."
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