round trip

Meanings

1. A trip from one destination to another and then returning to the starting location.
2. In an oil-drilling operation, the raising, disassembly and replacement of the drilling equipment.
3. A form of barter that involves the sale of an unused asset and the purchase of the same asset back again, or a similar one, typically used in accounting fraud.
4. The investment of a borrowed overdraft in order to make a profit in the same market.
5. The export and eventual reimport of a file, data, etc. without loss of fidelity.

Etymology

From round (“complete, entire"; "forming a circle or cycle”) + trip (“journey”).