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A brief stay in the course of a journey
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layover
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After a day or two layover in Casablanca, I headed on back home. ▪ During layovers I spent less time lounging by the pool and more time exploring. ▪ Including an extended layover in Miami for repairs, the crew has been in the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also lay-over , "a stop overnight," 1873, from lay (v.) + over . Earlier as "a cloth laid over a table-cloth" (1777).
Usage examples of layover.
Ann would, and Rags flew back to Indiana on the pretext of business, spending half the flight and all the layover in Memphis in tears.
Clubb plucked an unclean glass from the morass and filled it with Dutch gin or genever from one of the minaret-shaped stone flagons I had observed upon my infrequent layovers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
PERHAPS AS A LAST-DITCHeffort to work on their marriage, Chris invited Liysa to come along with him on a Hawaiian Airlines flight where he had a three-day layover in Tahiti.
Army—he was the last man from Kansas drafted to serve in Vietnam but never was sent—and a fruitless layover in graduate school, he found a job as the nightwatchman in a Stokely Van Camp pork and beans factory.
But exploring appropriate premises was time-consuming, and with Thread continuing to fall, any outbound journeys had to be carefully timed and safe layover shelters built along the way.
It adds a few hours to the schedule and shortens the layovers in the next few ports to catch up.
They're technically uninhabited, but some of them are used as layovers by drug runners and some have the 'pirates' on them.
All our merchies will be JNMTC units, so we should make fast passages, but we'll have a layover of at least thirty-six hours in Casca to transship cargo.
Two drinks and a sampling of Southern dialect was it for the Atlanta layover, then back on the 747 and it was Georgia's red clay falling away beneath the wing.
No one knew what Kazan was like now, but the planet was still the only charted layover point between Wasatch 1029 and Celandine.