Crossword clues for stopover
stopover
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stopover \Stop"o`ver\, Stop-over \Stop"-o`ver\, a. Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i.
Stopover \Stop"o`ver\, Stop-over \Stop"-o`ver\, n.
the act or privilege of stopping over; stopping at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train or airplane; the temporary interruption of one's journey.
a brief visit.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption. 2 (alternative spelling of stop-over English) n. 1 A short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption. 2 (alternative spelling of stop-over English)
WordNet
n. a stopping place on a journey; "there is a stopover to change planes in Chicago" [syn: way station]
a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" [syn: stop, layover]
Usage examples of "stopover".
Varanasi, then to Khajuraho, a stopover in Calcutta, then Agra and back to Poona later in the week.
And the stopover in Port Chuma, capital of Gondwanaland, former European colony of Bamba del Oro, and now sovereign nation on the brink of social and economic catastrophe, was interminable.
A young Cuban baseball player named Rene Arocha had defected to the United States, slipping away from his teammates during a stopover in Miami.
And even if the Summers weren't allowed to destroy every bit of technology they found remaining in Carbuncle, the city and all of Tiamat would still cease to be even a blurred hologram of the thriving interplanetary stopover that it had been.
The suits on Sky's Edge had been rare imports, purchased from Ultra traders who made stopover around the war-torn planet.
Western Europe counterclaimed that as the tower station was just a brief stopover for the sisters, and the whole operation was his anyway, he should have the necessary authority.
Fego, however, also received pay from the United States government as a surveyor and a backup mail pilot, and the next day he flew us to Attu, the remotest island in the chain, with a single delivery and refueling stopover at the naval station airfield on Adak Island, not quite midway between Umnak and Attu.
When they found that the inhabitants of their second stopover planet had no name for the place - or rather, had long forgotten it - Jack wanted to name the world 'Kybernetes' in dubious honour of its many machines.
It had been one of those stopovers before she moved on to greener pastures.
He went to the Missouri Savings Bank, drew out his account, went next to the downtown office of the Santa Fe Railroad and bought a ticket for Los Angeles with thirtyday stopover privilege at Flagstaff, Arizona, stopped at a stationer's, then on to the Commonwealth Bank and got at his lockbox, removed from it a smaller box heavy with gold.
Gorda Cay was listed as one of the favorite stopovers for international dope runners.
More than that, depending on how many stopovers he has to make on the way.
He was already familiar with Retlin from earlier stopovers, but used the time to re-accustom himself since his last leave to shopping and staying in low-ceilinged buildings where he had to bend almost double, and to public-transport vehicles in which he had to either kneel or squat.
Following a quick stopover in Panama City at an all-night truck stop with a Hertz franchise, I pulled into Seaside a few minutes after sunrise in a newly rented, dark-blue Taurus.