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/sˈuədʒ/ /sˈuɪdʒ/ Listen

noun

Sewage n.

The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers

Sewerage, 2.

Sewerage n.

The construction of a sewer or sewers.

The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.

The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. (In this sense sewage is preferable and common)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of brick and stone and provided with air-shafts, ran into a basin from which pipes carried the sewage beneath the surrounding plain which it helped ...

— Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine • James Sands Elliott

... mess. No sewage, no street cleaning, and the Lutheran minister and the priest represent the arts and sciences. Well, thunder, we submerged tenth down here in Swede Hollow are no worse off than you folks. Thank God, we don't have to go and purr at Juanity Haydock at ...

— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... example, it has been estimated that one fifteenth of the working population of modern industrial nations devotes itself to transportation; another one fifteenth to maintaining public services—light, gas, telephone, water, sewage, streets, parks—unknown in earlier times; and another one fifteenth to the manufacture and distribution and care of automobiles. Add still further the numbers employed in connection with theaters, moving-picture shows, phonographs, magazines and the newspapers, ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... organisms had been killed by the addition of sulphuric acid than when the original water was allowed to stand for an equal length of time. The author also discusses the statement made by Dr. Frankland that there is less ground for assuming that the organized and living matter of sewage is oxidized in a flow of twelve miles of a river than for assuming that dead organic matter is oxidized in a ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various

... to dig for clams. There were very nice clam and oyster beds along the river then. There were not many people to disturb them, and no sewage to starve them out. ...

— A Little Girl of Long Ago • Amanda Millie Douglas

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