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Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering | | Portuguese term or phrase: retenção marginal | | This is a site manager's CV and he describes a contract he worked on which included "avanço da retenção marginal sobre o rio". |
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 Moti Marom
Israel
Local time: 14:01
| Grading comment Thanks, Moti.
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1 day1 hr confidence: revetment
Explanation:
It's a structure built to hold back water.
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Asker: Thanks, Elsa. I chose Moti's answer simply because he answered first! :-)
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