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Definition of lay-by in English: lay-bynounPlural lay-bys ˈleɪbʌɪˈleɪ ˌbaɪ 1British An area at the side of a road where vehicles may pull off the road and stop. 路侧紧急停车带 North American term rest stop Example sentencesExamples - He said he intended to press for a bus stop to be reinstated in a lay-by on the deceleration lane leading to the flyover, saying other lay-bys were used by buses elsewhere on the A64.
- They stop at the lay-bys and throw their rubbish out.
- Whether cars are abandoned in residential streets or remote lay-bys they do not send out the message we want.
- About 7,000 motorists will be stopped on two separate days at undisclosed lay-bys, with police being used to tell drivers to pull over.
- The five-week scheme will also mean the closure of lay-bys on both sides of the dual-carriageway road at this point.
- The vehicle then pulled into the lay-by and parked up for several hours.
- It then pulled up in a lay-by, where the occupants were seen trying to set light to the fuel tank before they fled.
- Some are understood to have gone from lay-bys alongside major trunk roads such as the A64, while five others are set to be removed in the near future from streets in York.
- Then the group set off up the narrow winding lane to the main road and the lay-by.
- Every lay-by on every road is always littered with garbage.
- We had pulled into a lay-by between an articulated lorry and a car.
- The decision was taken despite fears raised by people living near the lay-by on the B4632 road to Broadway.
- The men suffered only minor injuries and because of the damage to the car and the accident happening late at night, they decided to sleep overnight in the vehicle, in a lay-by.
- Work will also include the installation of new and bigger lay-bys, improvements to road drainage and the addition of a hard strip to both sides of the carriageway.
- One problem was that some councils had removed litter bins from trunk road lay-bys to encourage motorists to take their rubbish home with them and to save collection costs.
- You can relax just as easily in a lay-by the side of the road that is home to three-dozen cars, a toilet block and an ice cream van.
- The cameras can be at the side of the road, in lay-bys and on motorway bridges.
- There is a lay-by on each carriageway, but 70 mph roads have those as well without anyone complaining that they represent a safety threat.
- We took the main road from Inverness that goes right along the Western side of the loch, stopping at all the lay-bys on the way down.
- I drove it at speed with the roof off and waited for the howling to become so intolerable that I needed to rest in a lay-by for 20 minutes until the trembling stopped.
Synonyms store, store up, stock up on, stockpile, put aside, put by, put away, lay by, lay in, lay up, set aside, stow away, buy up, cache, amass, heap up, pile up, stack up - 1.1 A mooring area along a canal, river, or harbour.
Example sentencesExamples - The control barge was successfully towed through the Barataria Waterway and completed the route to a lay-by berth in the Mississippi River.
- A lay by mooring area is available immediately to the east of the boat ramp.
- A lay-by for vessels was excavated on the south side of the upper canal cut, about halfway between the head of the cut and the lock.
2South African Australian NZ mass noun A system of paying a deposit to secure an article for later purchase. 〈澳/新西兰，南非〉定金预购 you could secure it by lay-by 你可用定金预购法得到它。 count noun they take credit cards and lay-bys Example sentencesExamples - The manufacturing sector are in despair that the bulk of the R&D money is on lay-by and won't be paid until the third and fourth year out.
- This bill is a Christmas present for New Zealand workers, even if the full benefit of the gift is subject to a rather lengthy lay-by arrangement.
- You don't have to be a Medici to commission a creative work, in fact if it's not being disrespectful, we almost did it on lay-by.
Definition of lay-by in US English: lay-bynounˈlā ˌbīˈleɪ ˌbaɪ British 1An area at the side of a road where vehicles may pull off the road and stop; a rest stop. 路侧紧急停车带 Example sentencesExamples - We took the main road from Inverness that goes right along the Western side of the loch, stopping at all the lay-bys on the way down.
- There is a lay-by on each carriageway, but 70 mph roads have those as well without anyone complaining that they represent a safety threat.
- Then the group set off up the narrow winding lane to the main road and the lay-by.
- Some are understood to have gone from lay-bys alongside major trunk roads such as the A64, while five others are set to be removed in the near future from streets in York.
- Work will also include the installation of new and bigger lay-bys, improvements to road drainage and the addition of a hard strip to both sides of the carriageway.
- He said he intended to press for a bus stop to be reinstated in a lay-by on the deceleration lane leading to the flyover, saying other lay-bys were used by buses elsewhere on the A64.
- The cameras can be at the side of the road, in lay-bys and on motorway bridges.
- The five-week scheme will also mean the closure of lay-bys on both sides of the dual-carriageway road at this point.
- Whether cars are abandoned in residential streets or remote lay-bys they do not send out the message we want.
- About 7,000 motorists will be stopped on two separate days at undisclosed lay-bys, with police being used to tell drivers to pull over.
- It then pulled up in a lay-by, where the occupants were seen trying to set light to the fuel tank before they fled.
- The vehicle then pulled into the lay-by and parked up for several hours.
- Every lay-by on every road is always littered with garbage.
- We had pulled into a lay-by between an articulated lorry and a car.
- You can relax just as easily in a lay-by the side of the road that is home to three-dozen cars, a toilet block and an ice cream van.
- One problem was that some councils had removed litter bins from trunk road lay-bys to encourage motorists to take their rubbish home with them and to save collection costs.
- They stop at the lay-bys and throw their rubbish out.
- The men suffered only minor injuries and because of the damage to the car and the accident happening late at night, they decided to sleep overnight in the vehicle, in a lay-by.
- The decision was taken despite fears raised by people living near the lay-by on the B4632 road to Broadway.
- I drove it at speed with the roof off and waited for the howling to become so intolerable that I needed to rest in a lay-by for 20 minutes until the trembling stopped.
Synonyms store, store up, stock up on, stockpile, put aside, put by, put away, lay by, lay in, lay up, set aside, stow away, buy up, cache, amass, heap up, pile up, stack up - 1.1 A mooring area along a canal, river, or harbor.
Example sentencesExamples - A lay by mooring area is available immediately to the east of the boat ramp.
- The control barge was successfully towed through the Barataria Waterway and completed the route to a lay-by berth in the Mississippi River.
- A lay-by for vessels was excavated on the south side of the upper canal cut, about halfway between the head of the cut and the lock.
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