Definition of "concreting" []

• Present participle of concrete. (verb)

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• "Too much Japanese government spending has been on useless assets such as concreting riverbeds, and bridges to no-where, which were done to justify the diversion of tax revenues to organisations which supported the LDP system - the amakudari bureaucracy, large building corporations and local government."
• "Orr rejects the concerns: This will not result in a concreting over of the countryside."
• "They and their colleagues in the Labour party are supporting it while in an unusual alliance the Conservatives and Greens have joined to oppose the concreting of this flood-prone area."