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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; É’n ˈruËt /
adverb
- on or along the way; on the road
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of en route1
˜yÐÄvlog 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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