DCHP-1 Online
access road 
1 n. a road giving access to areas not served by highways.
See also: resources road
- 1953 In anticipation of the expanding operations an access road was completed this year to connect with the Mackenzie Highway at a point 26 miles south of its northern terminus at Hay River on the south shore of Great Slave Lake.
- 1963 The paper companies built access roads for cutting and hauling out the pulpwood, but these seldom helped to connect the communities.
2 n. a road giving access to a main highway, especially to an expressway.
- 1958 The bridge has no access roads as yet, but was built for future requirements.
- 1964 That we ask ... for assistance in gravelling the access roads into Lac Vert and Pleasantdale.
- 1953 In anticipation of the expanding operations an access road was completed this year to connect with the Mackenzie Highway at a point 26 miles south of its northern terminus at Hay River on the south shore of Great Slave Lake.