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Answer for the clue "Waste matter carried away in sewers or drains ", 8 letters:
sewerage

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN service ▪ Ten of these are the successors to the regional water authorities and they also provide sewerage services . ▪ Severn Trent provides water and sewerage services to 8m customers, covering 8,337 square miles. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1832, from sewer (n.1) + -age .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. waste matter carried away in sewers or drains [syn: sewage ] a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water [syn: sewer , cloaca ]

Usage examples of sewerage.

The sea tossed its renovating brine to the determinedly sniffing animal, who went to his meals with an appetite that rendered him cordially eulogistic of the place, in spite of certain frank whiffs of sewerage coming off an open deposit on the common to mingle with the brine.

The camp at the Wells of Chaldi had been transformed by his engineers from an outpost of hell into a rather pleasant refuge, with functional amenities, such as ice making machines and a water-borne sewerage system.

When this benighted hole finally introduces adequate sewerage in the poorer quarters, the number of laborers who'll die in the diggings can be predicted -- in round figures, to the nearest ten -- by any experienced actuary or civil engineer.

From the neem tree that grew at the edge of the lot and hung over into the sewerage trace he cut a thick rod, far thicker than those he normally cut.

But the number of lives saved by that sewerage system can also be calculated, in the hundreds of thousands.

They'll save on the toilet tax since they won't be pumping so much into the sewerage system.

Once the Fire Chief had carried out an inspection of the basement of number 21 he agreed with the official - whom he had never met before - that safety checks would also have to be carried out on numbers 17, 19, 23 and 25, especially as the gas pipe ran parallel to the city's sewerage system.

The sewerage system of Turai is one of the wonders of the world, so they say, with a tunnel leading all the way from the Palace to the sea.

Just now and then he posted an incisive little farewell note in the Paris sewerage system, and it was delivered promptly to Dufarge's boot.