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trip
noun [C] (JOURNEY) /trɪp/Definition
A2 a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back again: The trip from York to Newcastle takes about an hour by train. Do you want to go on the school trip to France this year? I thought we might hire a motorboat and take a trip round/around the bay.mainly UK We can't afford another trip abroad this year. It's a ten-mile trip from the airport to the city centre. She's away on a business trip and won't be back until next week. I was thinking we might go on a shopping trip to Paris on Saturday.Journeys
(Definition of trip noun (JOURNEY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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