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- noun Alternative spelling of
streetlight .
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Examples
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The go-to company for street-light complaints is Robinson Industries, Inc., an electrical construction firm that's repaired local lights since mid-2007, when it was the lowest bidder on a city maintenance contract.
Susan Buchanan: Streets Unlit After Dusk In Parts of New Orleans Susan Buchanan 2010
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Residents phone street-light complaints into a hotline at Robinson Industries.
Susan Buchanan: Streets Unlit After Dusk In Parts of New Orleans Susan Buchanan 2010
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Residents phone street-light complaints into a hotline at Robinson Industries.
Susan Buchanan: Streets Unlit After Dusk In Parts of New Orleans Susan Buchanan 2010
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The go-to company for street-light complaints is Robinson Industries, Inc., an electrical construction firm that's repaired local lights since mid-2007, when it was the lowest bidder on a city maintenance contract.
Susan Buchanan: Streets Unlit After Dusk In Parts of New Orleans Susan Buchanan 2010
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In Minneapolis, residents recently began paying a street-light fee that also applies to nonprofits, which in some places pay fees for elevator safety and fire inspection.
Strapped Cities Hit Nonprofits With Fees Ianthe Jeanne Dugan 2010
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Through this I could see clear across a room to the window on the far side, and there, with the street-light beating in on his crouching figure, was Tiger Jack.
Watershed 2010
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Websites such as Neighbourhood Fix-It perhaps point the most powerful way ahead - why phone or e-mail your local councillor to report a pot-hole or faulty street-light if you can alert the local council directly?
Archive 2007-03-01 Stephen Tall 2007
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Websites such as Neighbourhood Fix-It perhaps point the most powerful way ahead - why phone or e-mail your local councillor to report a pot-hole or faulty street-light if you can alert the local council directly?
Detritus: 18 Doughty Street, liberal blogging and David Cameron Stephen Tall 2007
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This is where it began, this manic place with endless nose-to-tail traffic jammed on tarred and concreted street-light orchestrated discordant runways of the damned where traffic lights animate wait in truculent ambush for troglodyte high-risers trapped in toxic bricks –
Endless green (rev) Ivan Donn Carswell 2008
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It is an article of their creed that the first faint glimmering of true civilisation shone in the first street-light maintained at the public expense.
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