Definition of "patchworks" []

• Plural form of patchwork. (noun)

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• "Instead of a single national network owned by the incumbent, many countries will have "patchworks" of NGA networks based on different technologies and owned by different players, including startups and municipalities."
• "Lace insets, sparkly encrustations and complicated little curlicues of material were bound together with wafer-thin patchworks of other materials, all in the tea-stained hues of yesteryear."
• "Roads decayed into patchworks of potholes; refuse lay uncollected; the telephone system disintegrated."