beltwayn.

Brit.

/ˈbɛltweɪ/, U.S.

/ˈbɛltˌweɪ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: belt n.¹, way n.¹

Etymology: < belt n.¹ + way n.¹

North American.

1. A main road or highway that encircles a city or urban area. Chiefly (with the and usually with capital initial): spec. the Interstate 495, which surrounds Washington, D.C.; also more fully Capital Beltway.In Britain a road of this type is usually called a ring road.With quot. 1990, cf. inside (also within) the Beltway at Phrases 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in North America > Washington D.C.

beltway1951

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > ring road or by-pass

ring road1874

beltline1922

bypass1922

beltway1951

ringway1960

orbital1970

1951 Washington Post 6 Aug. 2 b/2 The estimated 40-million-dollar beltway would connect U. S. 1 on the southwest with U. S. 40 on the west.

1976 Washington Post 23 Jan. a14/4 Accidents are caused by drivers trying to avoid rock spillage..on the Beltway.

1988 M. Chabon Myst. Pittsburgh ix. 105 He knew its streets and crazed beltway system and suburbs.

1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xxiii. 476 He drove around the inner loop of the Capital Beltway.

1990 J. Nance Final Approach xxi. 347 Friday traffic was always terrible inside the Beltway, but given a little snow and slush to spice things up, it became a nightmare.

2016 Internat. N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Apr. 4 Near the beltway, however, the police had blocked the road with a vehicle.

2. Chiefly with the and capital initial. Washington, D.C. as the seat of the United States government; the political and social world of Washington, D.C. Frequently with depreciative connotations of intellectual and social insularity.Recorded earliest in Beltway bandit n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > seat of rule or government > [noun] > U.S.

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1976 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 30 July 13/3 Around the Pentagon the companies are popularly known as ‘the Beltway Bandits’.

1992 E. G. Corr & S. Sloan Low-intensity Conflict 10 The authors know that their task will not be easy, for they must..breach the insularity of the Beltway to read a broader audience.

1997 Vanity Fair Mar. 259/3 And the pit bull of the Beltway has put the fear of God into the Swiss.

2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 17 Apr. i. 11/5 Moussaoui sees beyond the gotcha politics of the Beltway and correctly regards this as an engagement of fundamentally conflicting civilizations.

Phrases

Phrases referring to the Beltway as a dividing line between Washington, D.C. and the rest of the United States, frequently with depreciative implication of a lack of connection between the political and social world of Washington and the people and concerns of the United States as whole.

P1. inside (also within) the Beltway.

a. In the political and social world of Washington, D.C.; spec. of importance or relevance only to those belonging to this world.

ΚΠ

1982 Antitrust Law Jrnl. 51 337 Most of those inside the beltway are puzzled by..such notions as sending power anywhere, much less back to the states.

1984 Observer 15 Apr. 13/4 That is an issue ‘within the Beltway’—concerning the pundits in Washington more than punters beyond the Potomac.

1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Aug. (Final ed.) c2 He would refer from time to time to a government-worker issue as being one of primary concern ‘inside the Beltway’.

1992 Atlantic July 60/2 Moderates tend to focus on ‘structural’ obstacles to women's political advancement..; women lack ‘bench strength’ they say inside the Beltway.

2015 Church Times 15 May 16/3 Such things as..bipartisan negotiations..are disparagingly referred to as ‘inside the Beltway’ (the ‘Westminster bubble’ is the equivalent British insult).

b. attributive (chiefly with hyphens). Of or relating to the political and social world of Washington, D.C.; spec. relevant or important only to those belonging to this world. Cf. Compounds 1.

ΚΠ

1983 Cumberland (Maryland) News 25 Feb. 25/5 Except for the Marines, Lebanon is an inside-the-beltway story.

1984 Winchester (Va.) Star 3 Dec. 4/6 Sen. Jake Garn..too often abandoned conservative positions of his native Utah while following inside-the-Beltway mores.

1990 Financial Post (Canada) 31 Oct. 13/3 The voters, he [sc. Bush] said,..were weary of the ‘inside-the-Beltway bickering’.

1992 Time 20 Jan. 64/2 Public servants at the Bureau of the Public Debt, at least, have escaped the perils of inside-the-Beltway insularity.

2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 30 Apr. 42/3 This conflict over who deserves the most credit for the surge seems a classic case of inside-the-Beltway journalism.

P2. outside (also beyond) the Beltway: outside the political and social world of Washington, D.C.; in the rest of the United States.

ΚΠ

1982 Winchester (Va.) Star 17 Feb. 4/3 The Washington oriented journalists, politicians, and bureaucrats..look with suspicion, if not contempt on breeds outside the Beltway.

1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Aug. (Final ed.) c2 It's become a question of whether an event has become an ‘inside the Beltway’ story—one of interest and concern chiefly to the Washington community but causing yawns ‘beyond the Beltway’.

1992 N.Y. Times 23 June a18/1 That would require a considerable change from the situation as it now stands, at least according to the polls and the considered judgment of politicians outside the Beltway.

2005 Nation 27 June 27/2 Public financing victories outside the Beltway..put ordinary citizens in the driver's seat.

Compounds

C1. attributive, with the senses ‘of or relating to the political and social world of Washington, D.C.; relevant or important only to those belonging to this world’. Cf. Phrases 1b.

ΚΠ

1984 Wall St. Jrnl. 14 Dec. 26/2 We can well imagine the reaction of the committee, the nation's great commentators and, for that matter, the whole Beltway crowd.

1985 J. W. Germond & J. Witcover Wake us when it's Over xi. 275 I always believed it was a Beltway issue if there ever was a Beltway issue.

1986 Observer 14 Dec. 12/11 Two weeks ago Reagan was complaining that the whole affair was a ‘Beltway’ scandal, of interest only to people who live in the self-obsessed world inside Washington's ring road.

1991 Harper's Mag. Jan. 71/1 Behind all the precarious, brittle, Beltway intalk lies the only idea young Americans will die for in the desert.

1992 Time 20 Jan. 64/2 Spreading the government around a bit ought to reduce that self-feeding and self-regarding Beltway culture that Washington-phobes claim to dislike so much.

2003 P. Todd & J. Bloch Global Issues iii. 87 Feuding amongst the concerned agencies was combined with..the customary Beltway premium on the interests of regional clients.

C2.

Beltway bandit n. slang (also with capital initial in the second element) any of a number of companies, typically located along the Beltway of Washington, D.C., that do a large percentage of their business securing government contracts for companies in the private sector; a federal government contractor.Originally with depreciative connotations of financial greed and self-serving opportunism, though now often used as a neutral descriptive term.In quot. 1967 referring to thieves who steal from houses and apartments alongside the Capital Beltway so as to be able to drive away quickly afterwards.

ΚΠ

1967 Washington Post 14 May b3/2 More cooperation is necessary among area police forces to combat ‘Beltway bandits’ who use high-speed highways to move from suburb to suburb.]

1976 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 30 July 13/3 Around the Pentagon the companies are popularly known as ‘the Beltway Bandits’.

1980 Time 14 Apr. 35/1 Firms in the advising business..have been known as the Beltway Bandits, since so many are clustered along the highway that circles the city [sc. Washington].

1997 Washingtonian (Nexis) Jan. 88 Northern Virginia likes to emphasize that it has acquired all sorts of high-tech companies that are not simply Beltway bandits dependent on Pentagon contracts.

2014 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Oct. (Late ed.) d1 All my ex-flag-officer colleagues work for Beltway bandits.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	beltway
释义	beltwayn. Brit. /ˈbɛltweɪ/, U.S. /ˈbɛltˌweɪ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: belt n.¹, way n.¹ Etymology: < belt n.¹ + way n.¹ North American. 1. A main road or highway that encircles a city or urban area. Chiefly (with the and usually with capital initial): spec. the Interstate 495, which surrounds Washington, D.C.; also more fully Capital Beltway.In Britain a road of this type is usually called a ring road.With quot. 1990, cf. inside (also within) the Beltway at Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in North America > Washington D.C. beltway1951 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > ring road or by-pass ring road1874 beltline1922 bypass1922 beltway1951 ringway1960 orbital1970 1951 Washington Post 6 Aug. 2 b/2 The estimated 40-million-dollar beltway would connect U. S. 1 on the southwest with U. S. 40 on the west. 1976 Washington Post 23 Jan. a14/4 Accidents are caused by drivers trying to avoid rock spillage..on the Beltway. 1988 M. Chabon Myst. Pittsburgh ix. 105 He knew its streets and crazed beltway system and suburbs. 1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xxiii. 476 He drove around the inner loop of the Capital Beltway. 1990 J. Nance Final Approach xxi. 347 Friday traffic was always terrible inside the Beltway, but given a little snow and slush to spice things up, it became a nightmare. 2016 Internat. N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Apr. 4 Near the beltway, however, the police had blocked the road with a vehicle. 2. Chiefly with the and capital initial. Washington, D.C. as the seat of the United States government; the political and social world of Washington, D.C. Frequently with depreciative connotations of intellectual and social insularity.Recorded earliest in Beltway bandit n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > seat of rule or government > [noun] > U.S. beltway1976 1976 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 30 July 13/3 Around the Pentagon the companies are popularly known as ‘the Beltway Bandits’. 1992 E. G. Corr & S. Sloan Low-intensity Conflict 10 The authors know that their task will not be easy, for they must..breach the insularity of the Beltway to read a broader audience. 1997 Vanity Fair Mar. 259/3 And the pit bull of the Beltway has put the fear of God into the Swiss. 2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 17 Apr. i. 11/5 Moussaoui sees beyond the gotcha politics of the Beltway and correctly regards this as an engagement of fundamentally conflicting civilizations. Phrases Phrases referring to the Beltway as a dividing line between Washington, D.C. and the rest of the United States, frequently with depreciative implication of a lack of connection between the political and social world of Washington and the people and concerns of the United States as whole. P1. inside (also within) the Beltway. a. In the political and social world of Washington, D.C.; spec. of importance or relevance only to those belonging to this world. ΚΠ 1982 Antitrust Law Jrnl. 51 337 Most of those inside the beltway are puzzled by..such notions as sending power anywhere, much less back to the states. 1984 Observer 15 Apr. 13/4 That is an issue ‘within the Beltway’—concerning the pundits in Washington more than punters beyond the Potomac. 1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Aug. (Final ed.) c2 He would refer from time to time to a government-worker issue as being one of primary concern ‘inside the Beltway’. 1992 Atlantic July 60/2 Moderates tend to focus on ‘structural’ obstacles to women's political advancement..; women lack ‘bench strength’ they say inside the Beltway. 2015 Church Times 15 May 16/3 Such things as..bipartisan negotiations..are disparagingly referred to as ‘inside the Beltway’ (the ‘Westminster bubble’ is the equivalent British insult). b. attributive (chiefly with hyphens). Of or relating to the political and social world of Washington, D.C.; spec. relevant or important only to those belonging to this world. Cf. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1983 Cumberland (Maryland) News 25 Feb. 25/5 Except for the Marines, Lebanon is an inside-the-beltway story. 1984 Winchester (Va.) Star 3 Dec. 4/6 Sen. Jake Garn..too often abandoned conservative positions of his native Utah while following inside-the-Beltway mores. 1990 Financial Post (Canada) 31 Oct. 13/3 The voters, he [sc. Bush] said,..were weary of the ‘inside-the-Beltway bickering’. 1992 Time 20 Jan. 64/2 Public servants at the Bureau of the Public Debt, at least, have escaped the perils of inside-the-Beltway insularity. 2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 30 Apr. 42/3 This conflict over who deserves the most credit for the surge seems a classic case of inside-the-Beltway journalism. P2. outside (also beyond) the Beltway: outside the political and social world of Washington, D.C.; in the rest of the United States. ΚΠ 1982 Winchester (Va.) Star 17 Feb. 4/3 The Washington oriented journalists, politicians, and bureaucrats..look with suspicion, if not contempt on breeds outside the Beltway. 1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Aug. (Final ed.) c2 It's become a question of whether an event has become an ‘inside the Beltway’ story—one of interest and concern chiefly to the Washington community but causing yawns ‘beyond the Beltway’. 1992 N.Y. Times 23 June a18/1 That would require a considerable change from the situation as it now stands, at least according to the polls and the considered judgment of politicians outside the Beltway. 2005 Nation 27 June 27/2 Public financing victories outside the Beltway..put ordinary citizens in the driver's seat. Compounds C1. attributive, with the senses ‘of or relating to the political and social world of Washington, D.C.; relevant or important only to those belonging to this world’. Cf. Phrases 1b. ΚΠ 1984 Wall St. Jrnl. 14 Dec. 26/2 We can well imagine the reaction of the committee, the nation's great commentators and, for that matter, the whole Beltway crowd. 1985 J. W. Germond & J. Witcover Wake us when it's Over xi. 275 I always believed it was a Beltway issue if there ever was a Beltway issue. 1986 Observer 14 Dec. 12/11 Two weeks ago Reagan was complaining that the whole affair was a ‘Beltway’ scandal, of interest only to people who live in the self-obsessed world inside Washington's ring road. 1991 Harper's Mag. Jan. 71/1 Behind all the precarious, brittle, Beltway intalk lies the only idea young Americans will die for in the desert. 1992 Time 20 Jan. 64/2 Spreading the government around a bit ought to reduce that self-feeding and self-regarding Beltway culture that Washington-phobes claim to dislike so much. 2003 P. Todd & J. Bloch Global Issues iii. 87 Feuding amongst the concerned agencies was combined with..the customary Beltway premium on the interests of regional clients. C2. Beltway bandit n. slang (also with capital initial in the second element) any of a number of companies, typically located along the Beltway of Washington, D.C., that do a large percentage of their business securing government contracts for companies in the private sector; a federal government contractor.Originally with depreciative connotations of financial greed and self-serving opportunism, though now often used as a neutral descriptive term.In quot. 1967 referring to thieves who steal from houses and apartments alongside the Capital Beltway so as to be able to drive away quickly afterwards. ΚΠ 1967 Washington Post 14 May b3/2 More cooperation is necessary among area police forces to combat ‘Beltway bandits’ who use high-speed highways to move from suburb to suburb.] 1976 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 30 July 13/3 Around the Pentagon the companies are popularly known as ‘the Beltway Bandits’. 1980 Time 14 Apr. 35/1 Firms in the advising business..have been known as the Beltway Bandits, since so many are clustered along the highway that circles the city [sc. Washington]. 1997 Washingtonian (Nexis) Jan. 88 Northern Virginia likes to emphasize that it has acquired all sorts of high-tech companies that are not simply Beltway bandits dependent on Pentagon contracts. 2014 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Oct. (Late ed.) d1 All my ex-flag-officer colleagues work for Beltway bandits. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1951
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