• (UK)IPA^(key): /sɪvl̩z/

civils (uncountable)

1. (chiefly informal)civil engineering
   • 1999 January 7, Ken Welsby, “Re: DLR Do”, inuk.transport.london‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved2008-07-07:

     The work involves extensivecivils and p/w since, the track has to drop from the present embankment level, some 5m above the adjacent road, to the floor level of the new tunnel [the 'cut & cover' section of which, is, I guess, about 10m below it.

   • 2002 May 13, Ian G Batten, “Re:Safety on the railways”, inuk.railway‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved2008-07-07:

     Our [ISO] 9000 (etc) accreditation extends, so far as I am aware, to cabling, ducting, poling and othercivils activities.

   • 2003, “DC Electrification”, in Franklin + Andrews Ltd, editor,Spon's Railways Construction Price Book 2nd Edition‎^[3],→ISBN, page79:

     Conreate bases, ducts and minorcivils […] bases for structures, in situ concrete bases, including holding down bolts and fixings.

The word is normally plural in construction, and is mostly used in relation to the infrastructure of transport networks and projects, particularly the maintenance of existing structures or the design and construction of new projects.

• clivis

civils

1. plural ofcivil

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civils

1. masculineplural ofcivil

civils m

1. plural ofcivil

civils m (1st declension)

1. civilian(person)

civils m pl

1. masculineplural ofcivil

civils

1. masculineplural ofcivil

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