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What is a cul-de-sac?

What is a cul-de-sac? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A blind alley or dead end street.
  2. A circular area at the end of a dead end street to allow cars to turn around, designed so children can play on the street, with little or no through-traffic.
  3. An impasse.
  4. (medicine) A sack-like cavity, a tube open at one end only.
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The shop was in Churchill Road, a cul-de-sac right at the top of the High Street on the left hand side.
People power has secured a public meeting to discuss plans to turn a Warminster street into a cul-de-sac.
There was a fear that extra traffic from my students would decrease the safety of the cul-de-sac street.
More troubling are the forces that trap many of these workers in a career cul-de-sac.
While cyberspace may appear to be an ever-growing universe, it's likely to become a misleadingly impressive cul-de-sac.
Although Winterscale Street is a cul-de-sac, highway officials admit they have no safety concerns which would warrant refusal.

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