Usually means: Circular route avoiding direct path.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. round about: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. round about: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. round about: Collins English Dictionary
  4. round-about: Wordnik
  5. round about: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. round about: Wiktionary
  7. Round about, round about: Dictionary.com
  8. Round About (sculpture): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. round about: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Round About: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  11. Round about: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. round-about: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. round about: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (round about)

▸ adverb:  In an opposite direction.
▸ adverb:  (emphatic) Round; around.

Similar:
about, back, backward, contrarily, arse about face, reversely, oppositely, counterclockwise, bidirectionally, reverseways, more...

Opposite:
direct, straightforward, concise, succinct, unambiguous

Types:
traffic circle, rotary, roundabout, more...



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Similar:
about, back, backward, contrarily, arse about face, reversely, oppositely, counterclockwise, bidirectionally, reverseways, more...

Opposite:
direct, straightforward, concise, succinct, unambiguous

Types:
traffic circle, rotary, roundabout, more...



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