Usually means: Reserved parking area beside road.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word lay by:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. lay by: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lay-by, lay by: Merriam-Webster
  3. lay-by: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lay-by, lay-by: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lay-by: Vocabulary.com
  6. lay-by: Wordnik
  7. lay-by: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lay-by, lay by: Wiktionary
  9. lay-by: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lay-by: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lay-by, lay by: Dictionary.com
  12. Lay-by, Lay by: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. lay-by: Rhymezone
  14. Lay-By: Britih-American Dictionary
  15. lay-by: FreeDictionary.org
  16. lay-by: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. lay-by, lay by: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lay by: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lay-by: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lay-by, lay by: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lay by: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lay-by, lay by: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lay by)

▸ verb:  To put away for future use; save; to build up as savings.
▸ verb:  (nautical) (of a sailing vessel) To remain stationary while heading into the wind; to come to a standstill; heave to; lay to.
▸ verb:  (Southern US, Midland US) To tend (a crop) for the last time, leaving it to mature without further cultivation.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of lay-by [(UK, Philippines) A paved area at the side of a highway designated for drivers to stop in, for emergency parking, or where vehicles can wait, with larger lay-bys possibly having facilities like food vendors or public telephones.]

Similar:
deposit, sock away, stash, bestow, hive up, tuck away, uplay, file, squirrel away, lay up in lavender, more...

Opposite:
pick up, retrieve, collect, take away

Phrases:
lay store by, lay by the heels, to lay by the heels, to lay by, lay out step by step, more...

Adjectives:
put up, lay, export, on board, laydown, away, stopgap, clear, deliver, abstract, utter

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Similar:
deposit, sock away, stash, bestow, hive up, tuck away, uplay, file, squirrel away, lay up in lavender, more...

Opposite:
pick up, retrieve, collect, take away

Phrases:
lay store by, lay by the heels, to lay by the heels, to lay by, lay out step by step, to lay out point by point, more...

Adjectives:
put up, lay, export, on board, laydown, away, stopgap, clear, deliver, abstract, utter



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