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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsuː.ɹɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsuːə.ɹɪd͡ʒ/
sewerage (countable and uncountable, plural sewerages)
- A network of sewer pipes that geographically transfers wastewater; a sewer system.
- (rare or nonstandard) Sewage.
1860, Acts of the Legislature in Reference to Water Supply and Reports of Water Commissioners, With Accompanying Documents, 1851-60, page 276:
Mr. Lovick made a similar experiment, to determine accurately the amount of sewerage from 1,200 average sized houses in London, where there was an intermittent supply of water from the different water companies.
- 2001, Paedogeddon (Brass Eye TV special)
- They put off paedophiles by spraying the child with eight litres of pressurized sewerage.
- 2010, India Today 5 Apr 17
- About 3.6 billion tonnes of untreated sewerage flows daily into the Yamuna, which supplies over 60 percent of Delhi's water.
sewer system
- Azerbaijani:
- Abjad: جوارلق (juvarliq)
- Roman: kanalizasiya, lağım, lağım sistemi
- Belarusian: каналіза́цыя f (kanalizácyja)
- Bulgarian: канализа́ция (bg) f (kanalizácija)
- Catalan: clavegueram (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: kanalizace (cs) f
- Dutch: riolering (nl)
- Finnish: viemäröinti (fi)
- French: assainissement (fr) m
- German: Kanalisation (de) f, Abwassersystem (de) n
- Japanese: 下水 (ja) (げすい, gesui), 下水道 (ja) (げすいどう, gesuidō)
- Korean: 하수도 (ko) (hasudo)
- Russian: канализа́ция (ru) f (kanalizácija)
- Spanish: alcantarillado (es) m
- Swedish: avloppssystem (sv) n
- Ukrainian: каналіза́ція (uk) f (kanalizácija)