conduit - Definition from the CONSTRUCTION topic - TECHNOLOGY

Topic: CONSTRUCTION

Date:	1300-1400
Language:	Old French
Origin:	Latin conductus; CONDUCT¹

conduit
noun

con‧duit

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[countable]

1 technicalTBC a pipe or passage through which water, gas, a set of electric wires etc passes

2 formal a connection between two things that allows people to pass ideas, news, money, weapons, drugs etc from one place to another

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Drug traffickers have used the country as a conduit for shipments to the U.S.

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