From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishround-tripˈround-trip1 noun [countable] TTTRAVELa journey to a place and back again a round-trip ticket from Los Angeles to New York30 mile/360 kilometre/2 hour etc round trip A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon.round-trip of It’s a round trip of 90 miles.
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round-trip• It takes four round trips to qualify for a free ticket.• 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.made ... round trip• He had made the round trip in a day.round-tripround-trip2 adjective [only before noun] American English TTTRAVELa round-trip ticket includes the journey to a place and back again OPP one-way SYN return British English —round trip adverbExamples from the Corpus
round-trip• Included in the cost are round-trip airfare from New York, hotel accommodations, kosher breakfasts and dinners, sightseeing and transfers.• Passengers receive round-trip coach travel from any Amtrak city to the QE2 for either of two 12-day sailings.• Passengers flying to Rio from other cities for the cruise will receive free round-trip economy air fare.• A one-way fare is $ 10 more than half the round-trip fare.• Advance-purchase, round-trip fares start at $ 965.• Stay alert for airline specials; you can often find amazingly low weekend round-trip fares.• Some estimates of the round-trip transactions costs involved in stock index arbitrage are set out in Table 5.1.From Longman Business Dictionaryround-tripˈround-trip adjective American English round-trip ticket/fare etcTRAVEL a ticket etc that allows you to travel to a place and back againSYNreturn ticket/fare BrEThe cheaper fares will apply only to round-trip tickets with a Saturday overnight stay. 