speed limit


noun
  1. the maximum speed at which a vehicle is legally permitted to travel, as within a specific area, on a certain road, or under given conditions.

Origin of speed limit

1
First recorded in 1890–95

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How to use speed limit in a sentence

  • Uncle Joe sometimes exceeded the speed limit leaving town but usually went in at a respectable gait.

    Watch Yourself Go By | Al. G. Field
  • Polly was fixed in her determination not to exceed the speed limit, at any rate on outward journeys.

  • Meanwhile, Lennard raced down to Portsmouth at a pace that by comparison made the speed limit as slow as that of a tortoise.

  • speed limit, 28 kilometres per hour in open country down to 12 kilometres in the towns.

    The Automobilist Abroad | M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
  • However much the rest of the year may drag, the spring vacation always ignores the speed limit.

    Peggy Raymond's Way | Harriet Lummis Smith

British Dictionary definitions for speed limit

speed limit

noun
  1. the maximum permitted speed at which a vehicle may travel on certain roads

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