routeing

1. 1
   verbBritish

   Present participle and gerund of route. Chiefly British; the usual spelling is routing.

   The dispatchers spent the morning routeing freight around the closed motorway.

   Routeing passengers through a second hub reduced delays during the storm.

   Note

   The British spelling keeps the final e of route before -ing, where American English writes routing. Either way the form does double duty: a participle after be (the dispatchers were routeing freight) and a gerund acting as a noun (routeing passengers through a hub). It carries every sense of route, from diverting traffic around a closure to sending data through a router.

2. 2
   nounBritishuncountable

   In transport planning, a method for working out paths from starting points to destinations across a network.

   The logistics firm overhauled its routeing to cut fuel costs across the delivery fleet.

   Poor routeing left several rural villages without a direct rail connection.

   Note

   Railway planners treat it as a countable noun, with routeings as the plural. A department sends its preferred routeing, and the planning team tries to deliver something close to it. Pip Dunn, in RAIL (2022), sets the requested routeing beside "the requested routes and times": the routeing is the plan, and the routes are what actually runs. The spelling follows the British verb form.

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