Definitions
a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
Word origin
Extended from beltway (“freeway encircling a city”); compare also highway.
Used in a sentence
“Apparently wishing to go Beltway in a big way, the Gap reportedly solicited Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos and media adviser Mandy Grunwald to pose for ads, but were turned down.”
“In a typical indictment, one columnist recently called some piece of Washington policymaking "too secret, too expert, too Beltway."”
“2002 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/nochild/lemann.html Your New Yorker article posed the question, "Can the president's education crusade survive Beltway politics?"”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Urban ring road”7 letters
02“City ring road”7 letters
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