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en route

[ ahn root, en; French ahn root ]

adverb

  1. on the way:

    The plane crashed en route from Cairo to Athens.



en route

/ ɑ̃ rut; ɒn ˈruːt /

adverb

  1. on or along the way; on the road
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of en route1

Borrowed into English from French around 1770–80
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of en route1

C18: from French
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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.
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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.

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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.

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"The first was the shooting of an ambulance en route to evacuate casualties after a home was bombed in the al-Hashashin area."

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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".

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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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