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Interurban Cities Train Railway Connecting Towns Businesspeople Waiting

word interurban
definition Going between or connecting cities or towns.
eg_sentence Businesspeople in the two cities have been waiting for decades for a true high-speed interurban railway on the Japanese model.
explanation Interurban is generally used to describe transportation. As a noun (as in “In those days you could take the interurban from Seattle to Tacoma”), interurban has meant a fairly heavy but fast electric train, something between an urban trolley and a full-fledged long-distance train, that offers more frequent service than an ordinary railway. Interurban transit today may include bus, ferry, and limousine—and, in a few lucky areas, a regional railway. With oil supplies dwindling, there's hope that interurban railways will be coming back into wider use
IPA ˌɪntərəˈrbən

Tags: mwvb::unit:12, mwvb::unit:12:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki

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