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reroute

reroute

1 4.2
A change that sends traffic onto a different road
  • noun
  • /ˌriːˈruːt/
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  • The NRDC (an organization that I am often in agreement with) has been pushing the aquifer issue hard, and once the reroute was announced, they shifted gears to:
  • meticulously planning the reroute

A plumber entering a house where there's going to have to be some rerouting of pipes, right?

Examples

  • Oh yeah—the absolute, critical, just-print-a-map-out-otherwise-required feature of a car navigation system is the ability to pick out real-time traffic information and present reroutes.

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  • The pilot announced a reroute to avoid the bad weather ahead.

  • So I suppose rerouting that to, you know, as you talk about doctors and and nurses and so on, or having more of that.

  • I only wish there was a setting in the Volvo to say "Ignore any reroute."

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  • A plumber entering a house where there's going to have to be some rerouting of pipes, right?

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

  • - Attempting conduit reroute.

    Lost in Space (1998)

  • Started with Reroute, I knew Ozma but choked on Baum—flipped a coin and went with Loreale...

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  • The unexpected storm caused a significant reroute of the bus schedule.

  • Due to construction, there were multiple reroutes for local traffic over the weekend.

Synonyms

diversion
vsreroute
13 5.2

A change that moves attention or action away from the main plan

refers to directing along a different planned path rather than just turning aside
redirection
vsreroute
1 4.2

Changing the direction or destination of people, things, and resources

is about changing the planned path specifically rather than broad changes

How Redirected

diversion
13 5.2
reroute
1 4.2
change
∞ 1.1

Surface Forms

reroute singular
reroutes plural

Morphology

reroute = reroute (transparent) = re + route

The noun is a regular zero-derived event noun from the verb 'reroute'.

Etymology

The word reroute combines re- 'again' and route 'road' or 'path'. So, a reroute is a new or changed route — the act of sending people or things along a different road.