en route
adverb or adjective
än-ˈrüt 
äⁿ(n)-ˈrüt
äⁿ(n)-ˈrüt
en-,
in-,
-ˈrau̇t
: on or along the way
he reads en route
arrived early despite en route delays
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Score it now for $51 off, and wear it en route to your cabin weekend or draped over your shoulders.
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Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2025
Many sellers might not even realize it until their next production run is en route, and their profit disappears in customs.
—Tom Wicky, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Today, emergency rooms nationwide rely on ambulances staffed by emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics (those who have achieved the highest level of EMT training) to keep patients alive en route to hospitals.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
Also among the guests was a boy who had been thwarted by traffic en route to last year’s garden party, People reported.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 May 2025
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Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2025
Many sellers might not even realize it until their next production run is en route, and their profit disappears in customs.
—Tom Wicky, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Today, emergency rooms nationwide rely on ambulances staffed by emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics (those who have achieved the highest level of EMT training) to keep patients alive en route to hospitals.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
Also among the guests was a boy who had been thwarted by traffic en route to last year’s garden party, People reported.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for en route
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“En route.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/en%20route. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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