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secondary wall
noun
- the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
Example Sentences
It also means agents have been pulled off line-watch so they’re largely unable to try to monitor the real dangerous crossings, and they’ve also been pulled from the highway checkpoints that used to serve as a secondary wall, helping keep drugs and illegal immigrants in a buffer zone near the border.
In those cases the trains are a way to get around highway checkpoints, which act as a secondary wall, hindering illegal immigrants’ attempts to get beyond border communities.
Of this 47 miles is what's called primary wall, and 33 miles is secondary wall that reinforces the initial barrier.
As of last week, Homeland Security had built four new miles of wall up along the border and 22 miles of secondary wall set back from the main wall.
When all that money is spent, it will pay for about 731 miles of new wall: 278 miles will fence in parts of the border never previously barricaded, 371 miles will replace existing but outdated fencing or vehicle barriers, and the rest will go toward a secondary wall set behind the main border wall.
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