speed limit

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   regulation establishing the top speed permitted on a given road

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Questions about speed limit

What does speed limit mean?

speed limit means "regulation establishing the top speed permitted on a given road".

Is speed limit a common word?

speed limit 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.