central reservation
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English
Noun
central reservation (plural central reservations)
- (UK, Ireland) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a motorway or dual carriageway.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 26:
- The driver of one of the cars had come through the windscreen. He was lying on his back on the central reservation like the effigy on an old church tomb.
- (UK) Synonym: reservation
- (US) Synonyms: median strip, median, (Louisiana) neutral ground
Translations
area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic — see median strip