how to pronounce drainage

/ˈdɹɛɪ.nɪdʒ/

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drainage is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of drainage in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… and we assume free drainage as a lower …”

meaning of drainage

Drainage is the removal of water, liquid, or gas from a system or place.

drainage frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word drainage occurs in english on average 9.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics drainage can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that drainage can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;