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stopover

noun as in layover

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Either way, the station is likely to play an important role for future missions, as a stopover for astronauts headed for the lunar surface and eventually as a staging post for journeys to Mars.

The refugee centers are nothing more than a stopover point for those fleeing the war.

Silver State Stopover at Great Basin National Park In the Great Basin National Heritage Area, you’ll find Nevada’s only national park and surprising history.

Javier compared the feeling to a vacation years ago when he and Sylvia had a stopover in Turkey.

From Time

Bright orange mesas and volcanic cliffs line this 132-mile scenic byway, which is chock-full of Native history at must-see stopovers like Chaco Culture National Historical Park and Bandelier National Monument.

What was once just a stopover point quickly became a destination in its own right.

After a stopover in Paris—she briefly worked as a subway busker, singing in Arabic for tips—Grout returned to Morocco.

One can travel between almost any two airports in America with, at worst, a single stopover.

The cluster of 770 islands lying 300 miles off South America once served as a stopover for whale and seal hunters.

McCain staffers at the time also said she had visited Ireland, but that was a re-fueling stopover.

Her stopover seemed quite extended already, for a casual visit in the course of a routine patrol cruise.

We can't risk losing that stopover contract on account of some mech joke.

They turn the pages of the big stopover book, hoping a relative or friend had passed through the same town.

A ten-day stay in Hawaii, flying both ways, with a ten-hour stopover in Los Angeles on the way back.

We had a day-long stopover at Sirius Eighteen, and I took a tour of the planet.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stopover, such as: breather, delay, halt, pause, and stop.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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