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An example use of driveway in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… new driveway in a hurry while underwater …”
A driveway is a paved or unpaved road or path leading to a house, garage, or other building.
the word driveway occurs in english on average 2.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
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 driveway can be often used in the following areas:
1) transport and travel;