Definition of stopover | Bee Dictionary of English

n a stopping place on a journey
there is a stopover to change planes in Chicago
n a brief stay in the course of a journey
they made a stopover to visit their friends

A stopover in Kabul or even just at Bagram Air Base would have helped underline Obama's commitment to what he has called "the right war.
An entrepreneur in Sydney, Australia opens the PawPaws Urban Retreat, a luxurious stopover for the discerning caninePhotographs by Lisa Maree Williams Getty.
She urged me relentlessly to meet her last year during a stopover at an airport where our paths happened to be crossing, so that I could brief her ahead of her appearance at a big .

Mumford & Sons provide answers concerning fate of upcoming Troy show
Local Mumford & Sons fans can stand down. Indications are that the English folk rock band will bring its 2013 Gentlemen of the Road Stopover tour to Troy in August as planned.
June 11, 2013 - Dayton Daily News

Clive Dudley Thomas Minton in Sydney Morning Herald
Clive Minton, Australia's leading shorebird expert, says: "About half of Australia's shorebirds are migratory, and all of those 1.5 million to 2 million migratory birds are using some part of China as a stopover."
President Bush in Bloomberg
One of the things we've discussed here is a significant environmental challenge we face here in America, and that is birds are losing the stopover habitats they need and depend on for their annual migrations,Bush said at the Patuxent Research...
Arsene Wenger in The South African Star
The choice of Boston as a North American stopover for the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race is a welcome addition to the ground-breaking route. Boston has a proud association with international sailing and sailors. There has been great enthusiasm from... Glenn http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNErmrlxQnvsKxMArOnLMjD1-fuoRg BYM News (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php%3Fid%3D7919&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGcpJ4tEH8Dacpv4eSpZ8Fbs15JOw May 4, 2007 94990 126231 stoppable I do not believe you can just stop any competition at any incident, because that will reward people who provoke the incidents," said Wenger. "That means any competition in the world will be stoppable at any time. The international federation...