out-and-home

English

Adjective

out-and-home (not comparable)

1. Of a journey, to a destination and then returning home.
   • 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 265:

     Most South Western Division workings are on an out-and-home basis and on the shorter runs to Salisbury and Bournemouth, some locomotives manage two return trips in the day.

Related terms

• out-and-back

References

• “out-and-home”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.