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civils (uncountable)
- (chiefly informal) civil engineering
1999 January 7, Ken Welsby, “Re: DLR Do”, in uk.transport.london[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2008-07-07:
The work involves extensive civils and p/w since, the track has to drop from the present embankment level, some 5m above the adjacent road, to the floor level of the new tunnel [the 'cut & cover' section of which, is, I guess, about 10m below it.
The word is normally plural in construction, and is mostly used in relation to the infrastructure of transport networks and projects, particularly the maintenance of existing structures or the design and construction of new projects.
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civils m (1st declension)
- civilian (person)
Declension of civils (1st declension)
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