Route (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
  2. a customary or regular line of passage or travel: There's a ship from our company on the North Atlantic route.
  3. a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of their work or duty: a newspaper route;a mail carrier's route.
verb (used with object), rout·ed, rout·ing.
  1. to set the path of: to route a tour.
  2. to send or forward by a particular course or road: It's the post office's job to route mail to its proper destination.
Idioms
  1. go the route, Informal.
    • to see something through to completion: It was a tough assignment, but he went the route.
    • to pitch the complete game: The heat and humidity were intolerable, but the pitcher managed to go the route.
noun
  1. the choice of roads taken to get to a place
  2. a regular journey travelled
  3. a main road between cities
  4. the direction or course taken by a climb
  5. the means by which a drug or agent is administered or enters the body, such as by mouth or by injection
verb routes, routing, routeing or routed (tr)
  1. to plan the route of; send by a particular route
Route (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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