sewerage

English

Etymology

sewer +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.ɹɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsuːə.ɹɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

sewerage (countable and uncountable, plural sewerages)

1. A network of sewer pipes that geographically transfers wastewater; a sewer system.
2. (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.

Derived terms

• simplified sewerage

Translations

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:

  Mandarin: 下水道 (zh) (xiàshuǐdào)

• 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)

sewage — see sewage