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re-route

verb

  1. to route or direct (traffic, a road, a river, etc) in a different direction

  2. to change the direction of (a project, funds, etc)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"It will have all the information it needs to re-route," says Mr Colman.

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The idea, they say, is to re-route general traffic around some of the capital's most famous streets like the Grassmarket and parts of the Royal Mile where pedestrians would be given priority.

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But ship tracking data shows that this changed from 15 December, when ship operators began taking decisions to re-route their cargo around Africa.

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The shipping company Maersk had announced earlier that it had decided to re-route its ships that have been paused for days outside the strait and Red Sea, and send them around Africa instead.

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Its forced some companies to re-route cargo, to avoid the attacks.

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