"bridge route" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bridge routes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bridge route (plural bridge routes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 34",
          "text": "A decade later D&H began buying fast, high-horsepower locomotives in the interest of lucrative bridge-route traffic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a railroad which provides a link from one major carrier (railroad) to another."
      ],
      "id": "en-bridge_route-en-noun-bXaIuqAx",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "railroad",
          "railroad"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, US) a railroad which provides a link from one major carrier (railroad) to another."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bridge line"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bridge route"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bridge routes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bridge route (plural bridge routes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 34",
          "text": "A decade later D&H began buying fast, high-horsepower locomotives in the interest of lucrative bridge-route traffic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a railroad which provides a link from one major carrier (railroad) to another."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "railroad",
          "railroad"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, US) a railroad which provides a link from one major carrier (railroad) to another."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bridge line"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bridge route"
}