clear·way

[kleer-wey]
noun British.
a road on which only emergency stops are permitted.

Origin:
1880–85, for an earlier sense; clear + way1

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clearway (ˈklɪəˌweɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  (Brit) a stretch of road on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
2.  an area at the end of a runway over which an aircraft taking off makes its initial climb: it is under the control of the airport

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Clearway is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
Example sentences
The area over which the clearway lies need not be suitable for stopping aircraft in the event of an aborted take-off.
It says that anything attached to a runway threshold is a clearway.
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