Definition of Stop over

1. Verb. Interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight. "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil"

Exact synonyms: Lay Over
Generic synonyms: Stop
Derivative terms: Layover, Stopover

2. Verb. Interrupt a trip. "They stopped for three days in Florence"
Exact synonyms: Stop
Generic synonyms: Break Up, Cut Off, Disrupt, Interrupt
Specialized synonyms: Call, Lay Over
Derivative terms: Stop, Stop

Definition of Stop over

1. Verb. (intransitive) To interrupt one's journey for a short (sometimes overnight) stay; to stop off. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stop Over

stop cock
stop cocks
stop codon
stop consonant
stop dead
stop down
stop list
stop lists
stop loss order
stop loss orders
stop motion
stop number
stop off
stop on a dime
stop order
stop over (current term)
stop payment
stop press
stop short
stop sign
stop signs
stop someone in his tracks
stop the car
stop the lights
stop the presses
stop up
stop valve
stop word
stop words
stopband

Literary usage of Stop over

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Jacob Scott Matthews, William Frederick Dickinson (1906)
"Wishing to stop over at a certain station, he went Into the office and asked a person whom he saw standing In the ticket office whether ..."

2. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1914)
"mente.8 Nor is the holder of a limited ticket,9 or an excursion ticket, entitled to stop over unless such right be given hy means of a stop over check, ..."

3. Health and Pleasure on "America's Greatest Railroad.": Descriptive of Summer (1895)
"Stop-over allowed at any station on notice to PENNSYLVANIA RR } conductor. ! Stop-over allowed at Carillon, Grenville, L Orignal for Caledonia Springs—at ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers of Passengersby Norman Fetter by Norman Fetter (1897)
"SAME— STOP-OVER PRIVILEGES. A ticket "good to stop off at all points" justifies ... with notice of his intention to stop over, the conductor takes it up, ..."

5. Biennial Report by Vermont Public Service Commission (1900)
"... as via the Central Vermont Railway, hut that no additional •charge is made on the railroads named for stop-over privileges for completion of carload ..."

6. Commentaries on the Law of Contracts: Being a Consideration of the Nature ...by William Frederick Elliott by William Frederick Elliott (1913)
"... agent has misled a passenger as to stop-over privileges, or has agreed to give them to him, the carrier may be liable for refusing to allow them, ..."

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