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beltway definition

☆ belt·way (belt′wā′)

noun

an expressway passing around an urban area
beltway Idioms

the Beltway

☆
Washington, D.C., esp. as regarded as the center of U.S. government and politics: so called from the expressway around the District of Columbia & nearby areas

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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