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Meaning of overground | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Above the ground.
    not-comparable
  2. Mainstream, not underground.
    not-comparable

Examples

“an overground railway”
“Colour-light signals, for both day and night work, came into use at a much later date, and their first use on any scale in this country was on the London underground railways, where the principle adopted was largely American in origin. But although light signalling is credited to America, one of the first instances of its use was an experimental installation at Herne Hill, although it did not find favour in this country for overground working until some fifty years later.”
“We have been concentrating on the City because that was the initial target for builders of both overground and underground railways, who were like artists going over and over the same piece of canvas.”
“They have plans to carry overground books on gay liberation, and a lot of books from small presses.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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