civils
See also: Civils
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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.
Usage notes edit
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
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civils
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civils m
Latvian edit
Noun edit
civils m (1st declension)
- civilian (person)
Declension edit
Declension of civils (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | civils | civili |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | civilu | civilus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | civila | civilu |
dative (datīvs) | civilam | civiliem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | civilu | civiliem |
locative (lokatīvs) | civilā | civilos |
vocative (vokatīvs) | civil | civili |
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civils m pl
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civils