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Webster 1913 Edition


Sewerage

Sew′er-age

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Noun.
1.
The construction of a sewer or sewers.
2.
The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
3.
The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers.
[In this sense
sewage
is preferable and common.]

Definition 2024


sewerage

sewerage

English

Noun

sewerage (countable and uncountable, plural sewerages)

  1. A sewer system.
  2. Misspelling of sewage.
    • 2010, India Today 5 Apr 17
      About 3.6 billion tonnes of untreated sewerage flows daily into the Yamuna, which supplies over 60 percent of Delhi's water.

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