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Divert Diverted Route Means Diverting Vehicles Travellers Make

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To divert vehicles or travellers means to make them follow a different route or go to a different destination than they originally intended . You can also say that someone or something d______ from a particular route or to a particular place.To divert vehicles or travellers means to make them follow a different route or go to a different destination than they originally intended . You can also say that someone or something diverts from a particular route or to a particular place.
...Rainham Marshes, east London, where a new bypass will divert traffic from the A13.
During the strike, ambulances will be diverted to private hospitals.
We diverted a plane to rescue 100 passengers.
She insists on diverting to a village close to the airport.
The capital remained jammed with diverted traffic.
word divert
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To divert vehicles or travellers means to make them follow a different route or go to a different destination than they originally intended . You can also say that someone or something diverts from a particular route or to a particular place.
...Rainham Marshes, east London, where a new bypass will divert traffic from the A13.
During the strike, ambulances will be diverted to private hospitals.
We diverted a plane to rescue 100 passengers.
She insists on diverting to a village close to the airport.
The capital remained jammed with diverted traffic.
To divert money or resources means to cause them to be used for a different purpose .
The government is trying to divert more public funds from west to east.
...government departments involved in diverting resources into community care.
To divert a phone call means to send it to a different number or place from the one that was dialled by the person making the call.
He instructed switchboard staff to divert all Laura's calls to him.
Customers will only incur additional call charges if the call is diverted outside the U.K..
If you say that someone diverts your attention from something important or serious, you disapprove of them behaving or talking in a way that stops you thinking about it.
They want to divert the attention of the people from the real issues.
The President needed to divert attention away from his own economic record.
inflections divertsdivertingdiverted
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