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Noun
/ˈbeltˌwā/,
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beltways, plural;
  1. A highway encircling an urban area

  2. Washington, DC, esp. as representing the perceived insularity of the US government
    • - conventional beltway wisdom
  1. a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
  2. A ring road is a road that encircles a town or city. This is the common name for almost any metropolitan circumferential route in the European Union. Examples include the Berliner Ring, the Brussels Ring, the Boulevard Périphérique around Paris and the Leeds Inner and Outer ring roads. ...
  3. The Loop is a beltway around Texarkana, a twin city in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Texas, running about 16 miles (26 km). Consisting of Highway 245 - sometimes called Loop 245 - in Arkansas, and Loop 151 and a section of U.S. ...
  4. Interstate 495 (abbreviated I-495) is a Interstate Highway that surrounds the United States' capital of Washington, D.C. and its inner suburbs in Maryland and Virginia. I-495 is widely known as the Capital Beltway or simply the Beltway, especially when the context of Washington, D.C. is clear. ...
  5. A freeway that encircles a city
  6. a beltway is a freeway that completely encircles a metropolitan area. Examples include Interstate 495 around Washington, D.C., and Interstate 465 around Indianapolis, Indiana. There are not as many full beltways west of the Mississippi River.
  7. (aka the Capitol Beltway) is a highway that encircles Washington, DC and cuts through parts of suburban Maryland and Virginia. A less literal meaning is when this term is used to reference matters solely important to Washington, DC workers or inhabitants. ...
  8. the circumferential roadway around Washington DC, inside of which bribes and payoffs are collected for redistributing the wealth of the nation to the top 12% of individuals and corporations and their purchased representatives.
  9. A 53-mile freeway forming a two-thirds loop around the Las Vegas valley.
  10. Refers to the circle highway that runs along the circumference of the DC metro area.
  11. [1] The interstate highway that encircles Washington, D.C. and [2] also used to describe the attitudes of the community of elected officials, bureaucrats, journalists and public administrators who work in the nation's capital, as in "inside the Beltway."