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en route
[ ahn root, en; French ahn root ]
adverb
- on the way:
The plane crashed en route from Cairo to Athens.
en route
/ ɑ̃ rut; ɒn ˈruːt /
adverb
- on or along the way; on the road
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of en route1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of en route1
Idioms and Phrases
On or along the way, as in We'll pick up Dan en route to the restaurant , or We can finish our discussion en route . This French term was adopted into English in the late 1700s.Example Sentences
A Ukrainian man who recently lost a custody battle abducted his children from their school in Sylmar and is fleeing to Mexico en route back to his home country, Los Angeles police said.
But the 21-year-old mistakenly boarded a Thames cruiser packed with a rowdy crowd of Shrimpers en route to their National League fixture at Sutton.
"The first was the shooting of an ambulance en route to evacuate casualties after a home was bombed in the al-Hashashin area."
Aboard Air Force One en route to Miami, Florida, on Thursday, Trump praised Ms Loomer and confirmed he had met with her, calling her a "great patriot" and a "very strong person".
The convoy was en route to Mandalay, the hard-hit city near the epicentre of the magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck last Friday.
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