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aller-retour

round trip

noun ah-leh ruh-TOOR Rare
Travel & Places Transportation

Also means

return ticket

Usage Note

Aller-retour (also written aller et retour) is used both for the journey itself and for the ticket: un billet aller-retour = a return ticket. The opposite is un aller simple (one-way). The hyphenated compound is invariable as a modifier but takes a regular plural as a noun: des allers-retours.

Examples

"J'ai réservé un aller-retour pour Paris."

Natural Translation

I booked a round trip to Paris.

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