reroute

Preposition: of

• traffic: High-tech firms in North Carolina's Research Triangle weathered Hurricane Floyd after days of preparation and rerouting of important online traffic.
• road: The rerouting of the road over the old railroad has removed all the bends.
• river: The revitalisation project included the rerouting of two rivers and the building of beautifully landscaped pedestrian walkways and Venetian-style footbridges.

Object

• traffic: The road was closed off for the day and the traffic rerouted.
• service: Thornhill Park & Ride is shortly to see more services rerouted to use this facility with the Oxford Tube shortly to use this point.
• parade: The decision to reroute the parade had been taken by the Parades Commission.
• call: Again, there may be legitimate reasons to reroute a call; it might be a defensive measure against a known attack.
• year: Keep straight on at all junctions until you intercept what used to be the Worcestershire Way, until it was rerouted last year.
• blood: This procedure reroutes the blood around the narrowing or blockage, creating an alternative pathway for blood to reach the heart muscle.

Infinitive complement

• serve: Because of the distance between Cambridge station and city center we recommend that the existing City Center Shuttle be rerouted to serve the station.
• avoid: In Axminster, the A358 has been rerouted to avoid some of the narrower streets.

Modifying Another Word

• automatically: The information flow is automatically rerouted around the disrupted node, allowing a seamless, continual flow of information.
• then: The blood is then rerouted to a heart-lung ( bypass ) machine.
• also: The post holder will also reroute any inappropriate referrals to local agencies, keeping the family informed at all times.