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  • noun Alternative spelling of streetlight.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Lamplighter's Story 2007

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