round trip

Definition of round trip in English English dictionary: A trip from one destination to another and then returning to the starting location
Margaret purchased a single round trip ticket to and from Chicago, as it was cheaper than buying two one-way tickets.; The practice of selling power to either an affiliate or another company and then buying it back for the same price for the sole purpose of artificially increasing trading volume to support claims of corporate growth or financial strength This term became popular during the Enron controversy Example: Company A might sell 100 megawatts of power to Company B on an online exchange at $10 per megawatt Company B then turns around and sells an identical volume to Company A at the same price No power is transferred between parties, no money is exchanged and the trades don't have any economic value -- but the trades show up on each party's books as sales Also called Wash and Back-to-Back Trading See also Bragawatts; If you make a round trip, you travel to a place and then back again. The train operates the 2,400-mile round trip once a week; A journey from origin point A to point B and back to point A; Buying and selling of a futures or options contract; A round-trip ticket is a ticket for a train, bus, or plane that allows you to travel to a particular place and then back again. Mexicana Airlines has announced cheaper round-trip tickets between Los Angeles and cities it serves in Mexico; A journey from point A to point B and back to point A Different from a multi-leg trip; Buying and selling of a specified amount of currency; Travel from A to B then back from B to A using the same fare basis code See also circle trip; a trip to some place and back again; A voyage, a journey etc to a certain place, port or country and back again; two-way trip, trip including travel to and from a location; A futures or options position plus its offsetting position (Commissions are usually quoted per round trip ); rt; Alternative spelling of round trip
round-trip time: The time elapsed for a message to a remote place and back again
roundtrip: Alternative form of round trip
round-trip: a journey to a place and back again. a round-trip ticket includes the journey to a place and back again British Equivalent: return trip
round-trip light time: the elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point
round-trip ticket: a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route)
roundtrip: {i} trip to a place and back again, two-way trip