English edit

Etymology edit

up- +‎ drainage

Adjective edit

updrainage (comparative more updrainage, superlative most updrainage)

  1. Upstream in the direction of drainage.
    • 1988 April 15, James Krohe Jr., “Where Has All the Flora Gone?”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      The likely reason that the plant went belly up at that site was that a housing development went in updrainage of the site.

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