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westbound

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    From west + -bound.

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    westbound (not comparable)

    1. Towards the west; in a westerly direction.
      He was driving westbound on the George Washington Bridge.

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    westbound (not comparable)

    1. Which is, or will be, moving towards the west.
      Westbound traffic was blocked for miles.
      • 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
        [...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains.

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