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round-trip
I.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It takes four round trips to qualify for a free ticket.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Distributors would travel perhaps a 1,500-kilometre round trip to collect stocks of vehicle accessories.
▪ Duncan charged £5-a-head for the 200-mile round trip to the new brewery.
▪ He had made the round trip in a day.
▪ It had begun, five years ago, as Project Jupiterthe first manned round trip to the greatest of the planets.
▪ London flights are $ 418 a person round trip.
▪ NetSAAver fares are based on distance and usually range from $ 69 to $ 299 round trip, the airline says.
▪ The round trip of some twelve miles is one of the finest of mountain expeditions.
▪ The boatmen who brought trade goods up the Missouri as far as the Yellowstone made $ 220 for the round trip.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
airfare
▪ Included in the cost are round-trip airfare from New York, hotel accommodations, kosher breakfasts and dinners, sightseeing and transfers.
ticket
▪ Bhikhu said they did not buy round-trip tickets.
▪ It might be that two round-trip tickets that include Saturday stays would cost less.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A one-way fare is $ 10 more than half the round-trip fare.
▪ Advance-purchase, round-trip fares start at $ 965.
▪ Included in the cost are round-trip airfare from New York, hotel accommodations, kosher breakfasts and dinners, sightseeing and transfers.
▪ Passengers flying to Rio from other cities for the cruise will receive free round-trip economy air fare.
▪ Passengers receive round-trip coach travel from any Amtrak city to the QE2 for either of two 12-day sailings.
▪ Some estimates of the round-trip transactions costs involved in stock index arbitrage are set out in Table 5.1.
▪ Stay alert for airline specials; you can often find amazingly low weekend round-trip fares.
Wiktionary
round-trip

n. (alternative spelling of round trip English)

Usage examples of "round-trip".

I looked up again, we were pulling to a stop at a convenience store in a small town named Elbe, whose main claim to fame was the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad Excursion, a one-and-a-half-hour, fourteen-mile round-trip train ride through the lower-lying foothills surrounding the mountain.

Today, an average of 25,000 people use the trains for round-trip commutes to work, shopping and special events.

The round-trip drive would take approximately thirty minutes, with another thirty minutes thrown in for schmoozing, which is how men do business.

They haplessly enter the stream of destiny, a wall of chitinous exoskeleton material sieved through the filter-feeding whales on their round-trip journeys from north to south.

The anonymizer did tell Triple-X that Renegade was in Austin, but, when he'd typed BRB, the hacker must've run a further test, which showed that the length of time it took the pings to get to and from Renegade's computer was far too short for the electrons to make the round-trip all the way to Texas and back.

The anonymizer did tell Triple-X that Renegade was in Austin, but, when he’d typed BRB, the hacker must’ve run a further test, which showed that the length of time it took the pings to get to and from Renegade’s computer was far too short for the electrons to make the round-trip all the way to Texas and back.

Tessa was given two free round-trip air tickets London to Berlin: first class.

Two round-trips in the first year, drop down to the Canaries and across, then down the trades, and allowing for a hard time around the Horn—.

Two round-trips in the first year, drop down to the Canaries and across, then down the trades, and allowing for a hard time around the Horn three trips if you had good luck running your westing down.

Ten laps plus the round-trip to the start/finish line at Horblein defined a complete race.

It took ninety-four microseconds round-trip time to the nearest point on the boundary, and a hundred and sixty microseconds to the farthest point.

But that problem would go away and usher in a new era of manned exploration of the outer Solar Systemwhen the race to develop a dependable, high-performance, pulsed nuclear propulsion system was won, which would bring the typical Mars round-trip down to somewhere around ten days.

Then an envelope arrived containing a round-trip plane ticket, and a guest list that included scientists, perfumers, and, yes, Priscilla Partido.

She glanced at her watch and quickly computed twice the round-trip light time plus the minimum dura-tion of a physician's conference after the electronic diagnosis was complete-ly which time it might be too late.

She glanced at her watch and quickly computed twice the round-trip light time plus the minimum duration of a physician's conference after the electronic diagnosis was completely which time it might be too late.