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HOV

abbreviation for

  1. high-occupancy vehicle: a car or other vehicle carrying a required minimum number of passengers, usually two.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of HOV1

1990–95
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Example Sentences

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As of 5:40 p.m. the eastbound HOV lane was open on the freeway, but the remaining eastbound lanes were closed, according to the California Highway Patrol.

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This is a very important issue, and these are conversations we’re having in the Big Ten, at the conference level, so it’s too early to tell as to what role HoV may be playing long term in our future.

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Young’s recent issues began on Sept. 12, when he got into an argument with a motorist in the HOV lane on the 405 Freeway, records show.

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This is a long-standing struggle in the Southland, where Joan Didion once called HOV lanes on the freeways “a foray into bureaucratic terrorism.”

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In Paris, pedestrian plazas and HOV lanes established for the Games have since been made permanent.

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