Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A system of sewers.
  • noun Removal of waste materials by means of a sewer system.
  • noun Sewage.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process or system of collecting refuse and removing it from dwellings by means of sewers.
  • noun A system of sewers: as, the sewerage of London.
  • noun Same as sewage. 1.
  • noun Synonyms Sewerage, Sewage. Sewerage is generally applied to the system of sewers, and sewage to the matter carried off.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The construction of a sewer or sewers.
  • noun The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
  • noun The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A sewer system.
  • noun Common misspelling of sewage.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
  • noun waste matter carried away in sewers or drains

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Examples

  • The pollution of a stream as regards fish by a one hundred ton pulp mill is equivalent to the pollution thereof from domestic sewerage from a city of the population of one hundred and sixty thousand people.

    The National Importance of the Salmon Industry 1928

  • Mercer only looked at the tangibles, such as sewerage, education and health.

    CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2007 2007

  • The amount of the council's capital programme for this year to the end of June has been increased by just over R13,5-million allowing for increased allocations to city infrastructure such as sewerage, water, storm drains and roads, Masondo said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Roads and bridges, public utilities such as sewerage, buildings and machinery, schools, hospitals and power supplies have all been severely damaged in the disaster area.

    Australian Assistance for Fiji Flooding Disaster 1999

  • "The proliferation of refuse and indiscriminate littering had to be addressed before other services, such as sewerage and stormwater, could be restored," Hall said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Mamelodi; to improve on the provision of services such as sewerage and waste removal, as well as water reticulation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Co-operation for the Environment and Development (Danced) for specific environmental projects, such as sewerage and waste treatment schemes.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • "The Government did not want to see households which paid for water suffer ... (and) a suspension held the danger in that it could also cause damage to infrastructures such as sewerage," Dr

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Some make a greater concession; they admit that disagreeable or unhealthy work -- such as sewerage -- could be paid for at a higher rate than agreeable work.

    The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

  • It is going to take a considerable length of time to install any kind of sewerage system at this camp.

    Conditions at Camp Greene. Speech of Hon. Sherman E. Burroughs of New Hampshire in the House of Re 1918

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