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off-street

off-street

2 3.6
Away from a public street, often for parking or loading behind buildings
  • adjective
  • /ɔf-strit/
translation icon : fuera de la calle
  • The ideal solution would be off-street parking.
  • off-street parking
  • off-street paths
  • off-street parking space

Examples

  • If we could have afforded a home with off-street parking, I am 100% sure we would have stayed.

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  • Get Your Work to Pay for Off-Street Parking

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  • I think city living presents a challenge to anyone trying to raise kids without the benefit of off-street parking.

    Blog text (32)
  • After all, off-street parking is more attractive for many other reasons.

    Blog text (32)
  • Urban Development Partners' next project includes off-street parking, largely because neighbors asked for it, Cress said.

    Blog text (21)
  • Beginning in the 1930s, off-street parking began to appear in planning and urban zoning strategies.

    Blog text (14)
  • To "ease this ever-growing need," municipalities and entrepreneurs started to offer off-street parking.

    Blog text (14)
  • Dorrie Mangosing had always felt destined for success—if not fame and fortune, at least a view condo with off-street parking.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • The office offers ample off-street parking for its employees and clients.

  • We prefer to reserve off-street spaces for visitors to avoid congestion on the main road.

Antonyms

3 3.9

At the side of a street where people park or put signs

Surface Forms

off-street positive

Morphology

off-street = street (transparent) = off + street

The adjective is a direct combination of 'off' (away from) + 'street' (road), yielding the straightforward meaning 'located away from the street'.

Etymology

Off-street comes from the parts off ('away from') and street ('public road'). So, think of a car pulled off the busy road into a quiet lot — off-street means located away from the public street, for example parking or loading behind a building.