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stopover
[ stop-oh-ver ]
noun
- a brief stop in the course of a journey, as to eat, sleep, or visit friends.
- such a stop made with the privilege of proceeding later on the ticket originally issued.
stopover
/ ˈstɒpˌəʊvə /
noun
- a stopping place on a journey
verb
- intr, adverb to make a stopover
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stopover1
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Example Sentences
What was once just a stopover point quickly became a destination in its own right.
After a stopover in Paris—she briefly worked as a subway busker, singing in Arabic for tips—Grout returned to Morocco.
One can travel between almost any two airports in America with, at worst, a single stopover.
The cluster of 770 islands lying 300 miles off South America once served as a stopover for whale and seal hunters.
McCain staffers at the time also said she had visited Ireland, but that was a re-fueling stopover.
Her stopover seemed quite extended already, for a casual visit in the course of a routine patrol cruise.
We can't risk losing that stopover contract on account of some mech joke.
They turn the pages of the big stopover book, hoping a relative or friend had passed through the same town.
A ten-day stay in Hawaii, flying both ways, with a ten-hour stopover in Los Angeles on the way back.
We had a day-long stopover at Sirius Eighteen, and I took a tour of the planet.
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