interurban

CEFRB1

/ˌɪntəˈrɜrbən/

adjective

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adjective
Connecting or operating between cities.
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adjective
Extra detail
An electric railway carrying mainly passengers between two or more urban centres.

Examples

The old interurban railway was replaced by modern highways.
Interurban trains connected the cities.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 3
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 1

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adjective

Extra meaning

Of, pertaining to, involving or joining two or more urban centres.

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The interurban bus route was popular.
interurban car, interurban line, interurban railroad
One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.

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The blank railway line stopped at each small station between the city and nearby towns.

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One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.
1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784
On the steam roads, the engine, representing with its tender an enormous weight, is required to generate enough power not only for its own propulsion, but drag after it a train of cars. Several important consequences result from this difference between steam and electric traction. First, on the electric railway single cars may be used, taking their power as required under such headway as may be required to accommodate the traffic, while the steam engine must for the sake of economy be loaded somewhere near its capacity, so that the service is necessarily less frequent than that offered by the interurban.
1909, Thomas Conway (Jr.), The Traffic Problems of Interurban Electric Railroads, page 7
Q. Took the interurban at Denison? A. Yes, sir. Q. And went from there to McKinney on the interurban?
1916, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 20
The act was elective and included the hazardous employments listed (they fill 112 pages of print) and include railroads, mines, interurbans, logging, iron and steel manufacture, packing houses, construction work, etc., etc.
1919, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 117
... but debits and credits arising from the operation of such street electric passenger railways, including railways commonly called interurbans, as are at the time of the agreement not under Federal control, shall be excluded.
(Can we date this quote?), Southern Pacific Company, Corporation Annual Reports to Shareholders, page 30

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Origin

adjective

From inter- + urban.

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The blank— railway line stopped at each small station between the city and nearby towns.

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adjective

The blank railway line stopped at each small station between the city and nearby towns.