rerouting

route

R r

Definitions of rerouting word

noun rerouting a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston? 1
noun rerouting a customary or regular line of passage or travel: a ship on the North Atlantic route. 1
noun rerouting a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of his or her work or duty: a newspaper route; a mail carrier's route. 1
verb with object rerouting to fix the route of: to route a tour. 1
verb with object rerouting to send or forward by a particular route: to route mail to its proper destination. 1
idioms rerouting go the route, Informal. to see something through to completion: It was a tough assignment, but he went the route. Baseball. to pitch the complete game: The heat and humidity were intolerable, but the pitcher managed to go the route. 1

before 1175

One of the 8% oldest English words

1175-1225; Middle English: way, course < Old French < Latin rupta (via) broken (road), feminine past participle of rumpere to break; cf. rout1

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

This diagram is provided by Google Ngram Viewer