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stop over

Phrasal Verb with stop
 
 
/stɒp/ verb (-pp-)

Definition

to stay somewhere for one night or more when you are going or returning to somewhere else: I stopped over in Paris on my way back.
(Definition of stop over from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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