Lexic.us

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"

2. Verb. Interrupt a trip. "They stopped for three days in Florence"

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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