单词 | round-trip |
释义 | round-tripv. Originally U.S. 1. intransitive, and transitive with it. To make a round trip. ΚΠ 1899 Wiota (Iowa) Tribune 3 Aug. 1/1 I. S. Coomes round-tripped it to Atlantic Saturday on business and pleasure. 1929 Helena (Montana) Independent 1 Dec. 15/1 Bandmaster Frank Damrosch round tripped to Philadelphia on Tuesday. 1963 Los Angeles Times 17 Oct. iii. 2/1 The 32-year-old reinsman from South Bellout, Ill., has round-tripped from New York to pocket big loot by steering a steed named Henry T. Adios. 2006 B. Wagner Memorial lxv. 341 Charters that round-tripped from Jersey to Paris for a paltry $70,000. 2. transitive. To send (something) on a round trip (in various senses of round trip n.). Also: to make a round trip around (a place). ΚΠ 1921 Aerial Age Weekly 21 Nov. 255/3 Close to 50,000 pounds of film shipments are round tripped weekly by parcel post and express in the San Francisco territory alone. 1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 3 Jan. 13 c Douglas Peck of Bradenton, who had just a cat with him as he round-tripped the Atlantic for the second time in three years. 1994 E. Helleiner States & Reemergence Global Finance iv. 88 Domestic financial business was ‘roundtripped’ through the Euromarket to avoid interest rate ceilings. 2003 S. Mullins Bikerlady ii. 19/2 They were the first to round-trip the mountain on motorized vehicles of any type! This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1899 |
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