Canadian English Meaning of right of way

Right of way

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right of way (n)

the privilege of someone to pass over land belonging to someone else

the right of one vehicle or vessel to take precedence over another

the passage consisting of a path or strip of land over which someone has the legal right to pass

right of way

the land used by a public utility (as for a transmission line), a precedence in passing accorded to one vehicle over another by custom, decision, or statute, a legal right to pass over another person's land, the right to take precedence over others, the right of traffic to take precedence, priority sense 1, the strip of land over which is built a public road, a legal right of passage over another person's ground, the land occupied by a railroad especially for its main line, an easement or servitude over another's land conferring a right of passage, the right of certain traffic to go ahead of other traffic, the area over which a right-of-way exists

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Right of way

the privilege of someone to pass over land belonging to someone else, the right of one vehicle or vessel to take precedence over another, the passage consisting

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