Betekenis van detour In het Nederlands

• 0 a different or less direct route to a place that is used to avoid a problem or to visit somewhere or do something on the way:

  • You'd be wise to make a detour to avoid the roadworks.

  • Traffic detours will be kept to a minimum throughout the festival.

  • His anti-alcohol campaign was a rare detour into the field of public health.

  • Barring any surprise detours, the governor is expected to sign both proposals.

  • While discussing education, she took a sharp detour into trade policy.

• 1 to go or make someone go a different or less direct route to a place, in order to avoid a problem or to visit somewhere or do something on the way:

  • We had to detour around downtown, so it took us longer than usual.

  • Detoured by family and children, she didn't focus on performing until the early 1990s.

  • He came to the area to be a country doctor and detoured into state politics.

  • The book tries to speak to the layman but often detours into territory most interesting to medical technologists and statisticians.

• 2 a way of getting to a place that is indirect and longer than the usual way, and which is taken in order to avoid a particular problem or to do something special:

  • You’re advised to take a detour to avoid the road construction.

  • We made a little detour to drop Sarah off on the way home.