tow-awaynoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈtəʊ.ə.weɪ/us/ˈtoʊ.ə.weɪ/UKan act of a car being officially removed from a place where it has been illegally left:
I couldn't find a parking meter, so I decided to park illegally and risk a tow-away.
This part of town is a tow-away area/zone (= one in which cars left illegally will be removed).
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Taking things away from someone or somewhere
- appropriate
- confiscate
- cream sth/sb off
- de-
- debug
- denude
- drain
- impound
- infringe on/upon sth
- knock
- knock sth out of sb
- nab
- relieve
- shelf
- strip sb of sth
- suck
- suck sb/sth dry idiom
- sweep
- take sth out
- tow
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