reroute

verb

re·​route (ˌ)rē-ˈrüt 

-ˈrau̇t

rerouted; rerouting

transitive verb

1

transitive : to send or direct (something) on or along a different route

rerouting flights/traffic

Bypassing roads, of course, was a prime consideration in rerouting the trail …

—Paul Dunphy

automatically reroutes incoming calls

2

intransitive : to switch to a different route

The storm forced planes/ships to reroute.

Examples of reroute in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Maybe the city can just close off the area surrounding the ballpark before and after games, rerouting buses and only allowing cars with resident passes inside the zone. —Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025

Thousands of people attended an anti-President Trump protest in the Mission on Monday night, and the effects on Waymo reverberated for days: A post on X with an example of rerouting around the Mission went viral Wednesday, getting 1.2 million views. —David Ingram, NBC news, 14 June 2025

Additionally, the union panned DHL for rerouting pickups across the whole country while reducing pay for owner-operators. —Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 June 2025

If a robot encounters a problem, the system might automatically reroute tasks or flag issues for human intervention, minimizing disruptions. —Florian Pestoni, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1869, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for reroute

• acute
• aleut
• astute
• beetroot
• breadfruit
• cheroot
• commute
• compute
• confute
• dilute
• dispute
• elute