What do straits mean

Meanwhile, engineering is increasingly enabling us to build tunnels under cities, under protected areas of outstanding natural beauty and under sea straits.

We have reduced the amount of foreign tonnage coming to this country, and, consequently, our straits have become more severe. They are admitted to be in bad straits. Not even in the direst straits would a firm stop paying the insurance premium on its fire policy. Constituencies, like mine are in desperate straits, and the tranquillity of which we have heard will be dispelled so far as we are concerned.

An illustration of the extraordinary straits to which the labourers are driven is to hand in the action of the boards of-guardians. We have not at any rate been reduced to such desperate straits as that in our discussions. See all examples of strait. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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Derived forms of strait straitly , adverb straitness , noun. Word Origin for strait C from Old French estreit narrow, from Latin strictus constricted, from stringere to bind tightly. A narrow passage, such as the upper or lower opening of the pelvic canal. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. A narrow waterway joining two larger bodies of water. All rights reserved. See more words from the same century.

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Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of strait Entry 1 of 3. Definition of strait Entry 2 of 3. Definition of strait Entry 3 of 3. A narrow channel joining two larger bodies of water. A position of difficulty, perplexity, distress, or need. Origin of strait. Middle English streit narrow, a strait from Old French estreit tight, narrow from Latin strictus past participle of stringere to draw tight streig- in Indo-European roots. Doublet of strict. Strait Sentence Examples.