- 1to change the route that a road, vehicle, telephone call, etc. normally follows to re-route a road to re-route traffic The flight was re-routed through Singapore.
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- 2(figurative) A large proportion of the defense budget has been re-routed to education.
re-route
verbre-route somethingVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they re-route
he / she / it re-routes
past simple re-routed
-ing form re-routing
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