Definition of "tramways" [tramways]

• Plural form of tramway. (noun)

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• "The Department for Transport DfT report concluded that light rail – better known as tramways – has a future in the UK if capital costs can be reduced and officials called on the industry to implement a universal design standard to bring down costs."
• "Though we cannot say that there is any indication of the State taking over the movement, we may note that the growth of municipal trading in the 'nineties was, in principle, an application of the consumers' association to monopolies of distribution such as tramways, water, electricity, and gas."
• "Their duties are the supervision and general management of the communal trade and industry, such as tramways, gas-works, water-supply, slaughter-houses, electrical supply, corn exchange, public parks and public gardens, hothouses and plantations, etc."