noun

1. a road, way, or course for traveling; esp., a highway
2. ☆
   1. a regular course traveled as in delivering mail, milk, newspapers, etc.
   2. a set of customers whom one regularly visits to make deliveries, solicit sales, etc.
3. Archaic an order for troops to march

Etymology: ME < OFr route, rote < L rupta (via), (path) broken through < fem. of ruptus, pp. of rumpere, to break: see rupture

transitive verb routed rout′ed, routing rout′·ing

1. ☆ to direct, send, forward, or transport by a specified route to route goods through Omaha
2. ☆ to fix the order of procedure of (a series of operations, etc.) to route orders through the sales department