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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vehicular
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
access
▪ Parents must comply with the stringent rules for vehicular access, which are explained in a Headmaster's letter.
▪ His idea is to put bollards down to stop vehicular access and place seats and planters for the use of the community.
traffic
▪ The latter type provided a wide central opening for vehicular traffic and two smaller side ones for pedestrians.
▪ On the I-way, the nature of vehicular traffic is extremely important.
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▪ His idea is to put bollards down to stop vehicular access and place seats and planters for the use of the community.
▪ On the I-way, the nature of vehicular traffic is extremely important.
▪ Once a B.O.A.T., difficulties with vehicular use can be regulated by a traffic regulation order.
▪ Parents must comply with the stringent rules for vehicular access, which are explained in a Headmaster's letter.
▪ Smith, who was driving, is currently on trial on a charge of vehicular assault.
▪ Some are on foot or skis, but increasingly in winter they will be vehicular.
▪ The vehicular cosmetic makeover costs $ 6.99 with a dollar off on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
▪ The latter type provided a wide central opening for vehicular traffic and two smaller side ones for pedestrians.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vehicular

Vehicular \Ve*hic"u*lar\, a. [L. vehicularis: cf. F. v['e]hiculaire.] Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vehicular

"pertaining to vehicles," 1610s, from Late Latin vehicularis, from vehiculum "a vehicle" (see vehicle).

Wiktionary
vehicular

a. 1 Of or pertaining to a vehicle or vehicles, usually specifically cars and trucks. 2 Of or pertaining to a language that is used as a contact language between two groups who do not share a common native tongue nor a common culture.

WordNet
vehicular

adj. of or relating to or intended for (motor) vehicles; "vehicular traffic"

Usage examples of "vehicular".

He walked, with Banichi, beyond the gateless stone wall and the spectators, walked over the cultivated pasture, a beloved patch of fine graze that had already suffered trampling, vehicular traffic, and fire last night.

There seemed little doubt that the ork was a rigger, a vehicular technomancer.

NYPD had closed Thirtieth Street to pedestrian and vehicular traffic, so we were able to set up our triage station outside on the street near the refrigerated trucks.

She thought that she could probably walk right out of the bailey and across the drawbridge, lowered now for the constant influx and outflux of traffic, pedestrian and vehicular alike, but too much was at stake for her to take a chance of being recognized and stopped.

He slouched by the side of the vehicular guideway, his attention focused as much on the surrounding scrub-dominated landscape as on the airtruck.

He slouched by die side of the vehicular guideway, his attention focused as much on the surrounding scrub-dominated landscape as on the airtruck.

Good Samaritan Hospital before being booked into the Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of vehicular homicide.

The vehicular accident occurred in the township of Newburg, about half a mile from the Potomac River Bridge.

From that elevated vantage ground the old man has a clear view of all vehicular traffic travelling between Pritchard and Sugarloaf Mountain.

In his relatively short tenure as a Navajo Tribal Policeman Chee had seen an infinite variety of vehicular homicide.

Motorists, pedestrians, vehicular traffic, suburban thoroughfares, snow emergency routes, snow removal equipment, sanitation crews, salt spreaders, accumulations, bridges and tunnels and airports.

Edge followed Florian, and the rest of the train followed him, across the bridge over the river Arno and then along a broad road skirting the main city, a road much crowded with other vehicular and pedestrian traffic, most of which came to a stop to gawk at the entry of the Florilegium, while other folk, in a hurry or uninterested in circuses, loudly cursed the jamming of the road.

They coasted through a long, straight corridor to a vehicular airlock.

I'm heading to the East Side, if I don't indulge in a major vehicular accident just to clear the goddamn roads!

The hood had to be held down with a piece of hanger wire to keep it from flipping up when the car jounced, and the front bumper was still smashed out of shape from last summer's attempt at vehicular monsterslaughter.