route. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

route

PRONUNCIATION:	rt, rout
NOUN:	1. abbr. Rt. or Rte. a. A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another. b. A highway. 2. A customary line of travel. See synonyms at way. 3. A fixed course or territory assigned to a salesperson or delivery person. 4. A means of reaching a goal.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: rout·ed, rout·ing, routes 1. To send or forward by a specific route. See synonyms at send¹. 2. To schedule the order of (a sequence of procedures).
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rupta (via), broken (road), feminine past participle of rumpere, to break. See rout¹.


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