From en.wiktionary.org:
[Civils]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
*** Noun
[-]
1. [en] civil engineering
2. * {{ quote-newsgroup | en | date=January 07 1999
|author=Ken Welsby |title=Re: DLR Do |newsgroup=uk.transport.london
|url=http://groups.google.com/group/uk.transport.london/msg/d5644a66267e4d01?dmode=source
|accessdate=2008-07-07 |passage=The work involves extensive CIVILS and p/w
since, the track has to drop from the present embankment level, some 5m above
the adjacent road, to the floor level of the new tunnel [the 'cut & cover'
section of which, is, I guess, about 10m below it.<!--[sic] missing right
square bracket--> }}
1. * {{ quote-newsgroup | en | date=13 May 2002
|author=Ian G Batten |title=Re:Safety on the railways |newsgroup=uk.railway
|url=http://groups.google.com/group/uk.railway/msg/e2aab0370109554f?dmode=source
|accessdate=2008-07-07 |passage=Our [ISO] 9000 (etc) accreditation extends, so
far as I am aware, to cabling, ducting, poling and other CIVILS activities.
}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2003
|editor=Franklin + Andrews Ltd |title=Spon's Railways Construction Price Book
2nd Edition |chapter=DC Electrification
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qeSEq9jKDioC&dq=civils&pg=PA79
|isbn=0-415-32623-0 |page=79 |passage=Conreate bases, ducts and minor CIVILS
[…] bases for structures, in situ concrete bases, including holding down bolts
and fixings. }}
**** Usage notes
The word is normally plural in construction, and is mostly used in relation to
the infrastructure of transport networks and projects, particularly the
maintenance of existing structures or the design and construction of new
projects.
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Catalan
*** Adjective
[ca]
1. [ca]
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [fr]
*** Adjective
[fr]
1. [fr]
*** Noun
[fr]
1. [fr]
** Latvian
*** Noun
[m]
1. civilian [person]
**** Declension
[civil]
** Norman
*** Adjective
[nrf]
1. [nrf]
** Occitan
*** Adjective
[oc]
1. [oc]