shared driveway
English
Etymology
shared + driveway
Noun
shared driveway (plural shared driveways)
- A driveway that leads to multiple residences, often owned or maintained jointly by the residents along the driveway.
- 2016 May 19, Frost, Samantha, Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
- In the same way that a shared driveway between two houses turns what is technically half a driveway for each house into practically a whole driveway for each, so in covalent bonds, the electrons in the outer shells of the atoms are integrated into one another’s orbitals so that, for all intents and purposes, each involved atom has in its outer shell eight electrons.
- 2016 December 28, Wentling, James, Designing a Place Called Home: Reordering the Suburbs, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 77:
- For more narrow lots, some homebuilders are reconsidering ideas such as the shared driveway, which can compensate for the fact that additional paving is required for side or rear loading. However, designs must consider and eliminate the potential for blockage of the driveway by neighbors and shared maintenance—factors which are major market objects to the shared driveway.
Synonyms
- (driveway that leads to multiple residences): pipestem, pipestem driveway