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roadworthy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
roadworthy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As I have said, the inspectors are responsible for ensuring that all vehicles are safe and roadworthy.
▪ Dozens of police motorcycles have been taken off the road in London after routine inspections found them not to be roadworthy.
▪ He said he hadn't the strength to act on it, and yet he exhausted himself in making it roadworthy.
▪ The bike has to be roadworthy and under 20 years old.
▪ The new one was a roadworthy item, and Jenny could push it around the grounds.
Wiktionary
roadworthy

a. Being able to be driven, or suitable for driving, on the open road.

WordNet
roadworthy

adj. (of vehicles) fit to be driven on the open road; "a roadworthy truck"

Usage examples of "roadworthy".

Spare tires and containers were transferred and lashed down to the most roadworthy vehicle.

Feeling guiltier about it than about any other action I had performed since arriving at Schiphol Airport, I selected the most roadworthy of the bicycles, trundled it up to the locked gate, lifted it over, followed myself, and pedalled on my way.

Their charges are excessive and the lack of an effective licensing system makes it impossible to be sure that the vehicles are in roadworthy condition or that the drivers are competent.

And Mildred, her rusty, trusty Toyota pickup, by some miracle of duct tape, spit and baling wire, was still roadworthy, bless her faithful mechanical soul.

Russian compound, stealing a roadworthy vehicle and getting all the way up here to meet us?

Feeling guiltier about it than about any other action I had performed since arriving at Schiphol Airport, I selected the most roadworthy of the bicycles, trundled it up to the locked gate, lifted it over, followed myself, and pedaled on my way.

The coupe shrieked as it hit the curve, but Harry managed the twist with precision and the roadworthy car responded.

Russian compound, stealing a roadworthy vehicle, and getting all the way up here to meet us?