access road

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   a short road giving access to an expressway

   “in Britain they call an access road a slip road”

   Synonymsslip road

   Broaderroad

Questions about access road

What does access road mean?

access road means "a short road giving access to an expressway".

What is another word for access road?

Close synonyms include slip road. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is access road a common word?

access road is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.