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en route

/ahn -root, en; French ahn -root/US // ɑn ˈrut, ɛn; French ɑ̃ ˈrut //

途中,路上,途经,途径

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : on the way: The plane crashed en route from Cairo to Athens.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • They won’t immunize a significant part of the population for months, but just knowing they’re en route prompts companies to start planning for an upturn.

  • Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?

  • AirAsia has now been grounded on this route by the Indonesians.

  • And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.

  • Otis, who tells me he was called “Saladin” on the inside, has taken an almost tragically circuitous route in getting here.

  • After a hit, they would adjust the search to the most likely route from there.

  • I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.

  • He was living quite en garçon, with only one man, his house having been let for the season.

  • Their Chateau en Espagne seemed invisible, as such chateaux usually are; and where it might be found, who was there to tell?

  • Alice Arden, you little dream of the man and the route by which, possibly, deliverance is speeding to you.

  • True; but as we are far enough now from that point, we must e'en make the best of the bad.