0 a large pipe, usually underground, that is used for carrying waste water and human waste away from buildings to a place where they can be safely got rid of:
a sewer pipe
A complicated system of sewers runs under the city.
1 an artificial passage or pipe, usually underground, that carries waste and used water from sinks and toilets away from buildings to a place where they can be safely gotten rid of:
The county is putting in new sewers.
Trucks of the streets and sewers departments were used in moving the flood menaced families to various school houses located on higher grounds.
We retrieved our equipment and recarpeted the sewers.
Their salaries merely covered their supervision of the repair and cleansing of sewers.
Her house was not directly connected to the sewers of the commission, and existed on an elevation.
There are other important legal issues surrounding sewers not discussed in this article.
Low levels of capital expenditure on sewers do not mean that improvements were not taking place in the collection and disposal of wastes.
In terms of their construction costs, sewers and streets are far less capital-intensive than water supply.
Such sewers differed from the emphasis on comprehensiveness and system that characterized the new kind of sewerage.
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