round tripn.adj.adv.
/raʊnd ˈtrɪp/, U.S. /ˌraʊn(d) ˈtrɪp/ A. n.
1.
a. A journey to a place and back again, along the same route; (also) a journey to one or more places and back again which does not cover the same ground twice, a circular tour or trip.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > circular or round
compassc1384
circuit1483
the tour1642
circumrotation1751
round trip1792
tournee1794
1792 Adams's Weekly Courant 22 May 2 If she does not return light, she must perform what we call the round trip.
1837 Globe (Washington, D.C.) 1 June The fare will be fixed at $3 for the round trip.
1868 Putnam's Mag. Mar. 351/1 Time for the round trip..44 hours.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 July 7/2 A stated fare will be charged for the round trip.
1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xiii. 223 We signed for the round trip in the Liberty Chimes, but we don't feel like taking her all the way home.
1976 V. J. Scott & D. Koski Walk-in (1977) iii. 21 ‘Round trip?’ the ticket seller asked... ‘You want to go and come back?’
2000 Canberra Sunday Times 11 June 36/1 Packages include a 20-day round trip in Nepal, incorporating mountain trekking, river-rafting and wildlife safaris.
b. Baseball. A home run. Cf. round-tripper n. 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > base-playing or running > types of run
home run1856
tally1856
steal1867
homer1868
round trip1895
double steal1897
round-tripper1908
stroll1908
grand slam1920
dinger1968
1895 Boston Daily Globe 30 July 2/2 Hamilton hit a hot one to left which was fumbled by McCarthy, and before the latter could make connections Hamilton had made the round trip.
1914 Michigan Technic Oct. 170/2 Stewart chalked up a round trip, a double and a single out of a like number of trips to the plate.
1968 Chicago Daily Defender 16 Jan. 25/1 The all-time home run mark for N[ational] L[eague] catchers with 242 round-trip blasts.
2004 J. D'Amore R. Hornsby ii. 16 By the rules of the day, any fair ball that subsequently bounced out of play earned the batter a round trip.
2. In extended use and figurative, esp. (Mining and Oil Industry) an act of withdrawing and replacing a drill pipe.
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society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > [noun] > other procedures
jar1865
run1880
round trip1900
shooting1914
swabbing1921
underreaming1922
acidization1934
squeeze cementing1938
mud logging1960
re-entry1961
stab1972
upending1976
1900 Cassier's Mag. Nov. 9/2 The time consumed in lowering, raising, and discharging the bailer of a 1000-foot well is only about one minute for a round trip.
1935 Econ. Geol. 30 739 Very deep wells may require as much as eight hours to make the ‘round trip’.
1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 33/1 Round trip, anything unusually good or outstanding.
1971 Sci. Amer. July 37/2 The light in the crystal making a round trip along the junction plane is amplified enough to offset losses due to absorption.
1986 New Yorker 20 Jan. 56/2 The roughnecks were in the midst of a ‘round trip’—pulling the entire drill string back up the hole in order to change the bit.
1991 J. Woodhouse in C. Bondi New Applic. Math. ix. 219 While this ‘Helmholtz motion’ is going on, the pitch of the note is governed by the travel time of the corner on a round trip along the string and back.
3. Stock Market (originally U.S.). The action or an instance of buying and selling the same stock, commodity, etc., often simultaneously. Cf. round turn n. 4.Recorded earliest in compounds.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements
intromission1567
hedginga1631
retiring1681
partnership1704
put1718
time bargain1720
bargain for time1721
option1746
call1825
put and call1826
cornering1841
corner1853
raid1866
pooling1871
squeeze1872
call option1874
recapitalization1874
short squeeze1877
split-up1878
margin call1888
pyramid1888
profit taking1891
pyramiding1895
underwriting1895
melon-cutting1900
round turn1901
market-making1902
put-through1902
put and take1921
round trip1922
put and take1929
leverage1931
split-down1932
switching1932
give-up1934
mark to market1938
recap1940
rollover1947
downtick1954
stock split1955
traded option1955
leg1959
stock splitting1959
rollover1961
split1972
spread betting1972
unitization1974
marking-to-market1981
swap1982
telebroking1984
1922 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Sept. 2/3 Perhaps $40,000 may have covered the sugar king's round trip assessment.
1924 N.Y. Times 27 Oct. 35 Cotton selling below 25 cents a pound requires what is called a ‘round trip’, or buying and selling commission combined of $25.
1968 Changing Times May 10/2 Unlike the stock market, commodity commissions cover a ‘round trip’—the original buy or sell order and the compensating transaction.
1987 R. J. Hodrick Empirical Evid. Efficiency Forward & Futures Foreign Exchange Markets iv. 82 There were 42 round trips in the 1289 trading days with the one percent filter.
2010 R. A. Schwartz Micro Markets iii. 140 The bid-ask spread is the cost of taking a round trip (buying and then selling, or selling short and then buying).
B. adj. (attributive). Chiefly North American.
1. Of or relating to a round trip (in various senses). Cf. return n. Compounds 1.
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1845 Ann. Rep. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. 17 The majority of the board..resolved to reduce the fare to two dollars, both for the through and round trip tickets.
1887 Libr. Jrnl. July 249/2 If a party is made up, the NY Central offers the following very low round trip rates for return by the Lakes.
1910 N.Y. Evening Post 17 Dec. 7 The round-trip railroad fare will be $6.80.
1930 N.Y. Times 6 July ii. 9/4 On such a turnover the commissions, allowing an average of $40 for a ‘round trip’ transaction of 100 shares, aggregates less than $500,000.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) IX. 18/2 The single-path round-trip system is the basis of distance determination in all radars.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 20 July 5/1 The..Stock Exchange said yesterday it would like to attract small investors back to the stock market with a ‘round trip’ rate.
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 16 July viii. 11/2 Also included are a walking tour of the town of Nantucket, cocktails each evening and round-trip fast-ferry transportation from Hyannis.
2. That makes or has made a round trip (literal and figurative).
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1878 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 19 Mar. 7/4 The Clinton brought from Keokuk 100 round trip passengers.
1885 By-ways (Central Vermont Railway Co.) 73 Round-trip passengers can live on board while in port, without extra charge.
1909 Mag. of Hist. Sept. 169 The officers of the boat..regard the round trip traveller as a guest.
1938 Amer. Speech 13 220/2 Round-trip words, i.e. from O[ld] F[rench] to Eng[lish], thence to French.
1973 D. L. Keith in P. W. Prenshaw Conversat. with Eudora Welty (1984) 146 Because of special fares designed to attract round trip travelers, Miss Welty's rate estimate is entirely within reason.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Nov. d6/3 Producers began to send wine on voyages, just for the ride. The best were called vinhos da roda: round-trip wines.
C. adv. Chiefly North American.
As a round trip; by travelling to a place and back again.
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1856 Rep. Special Comm. Troubles in Kansas (U. S. House of Representatives, 34th Congr., 1st Sess.) 420 The steamboat New Lucy was lying at the levee at Weston, and we chartered her to bring down from eighty to one hundred for $2 50, round trip, meals included.
1874 Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 8 Sept. 571/2 A special train of excursionists went to Franklin last week, over 700; fare, $2.25 round trip.
1900 E. S. Goodhue Beneath Hawaiian Palms & Stars iii. 34 A good horse and guide from Wailuku for twenty dollars round-trip.
1955 Life 25 Apr. 169/2 (advt.) As low as $2 for 12 hours round trip.
1985 Washington Post 18 Aug. e8/1 They fly nonstop from New York to Nice for an APEX fare of about £900 round-trip.
2009 L. Lane Code viii. 286 It says here there's a bike race going round trip between Paris and Zurich.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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