long-haul

Adjective

long haul (not comparable)

1. (usually hyphenated) Travelling a long distance.
   • a long-haul flight

   Antonyms:

   short haul

See all 3 meanings of long haul

Verb

longhaul (third-person singular simple present longhauls, present participle longhauling, simple past and past participle longhauled)

1. (transitive) To travel a long distance.
   • Though they breed in the High Arctic summer, Arctic terns 'winter' south in the austral summer, thus living a life of perpetual summer and almost endless daylight in the classic example of 'globe-spanning'. […] Longhauling 22,000 miles a year they are the only northern breeding species which...2008 July, Tony Soper, “Arctic Tern: Sterna paradisaea”, in Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife, 5th edition, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire: Bradt Travel Guides; Guilford, Ct.: The Globe Pequot...
2. (transitive) To transport goods over long distances.
   • Q. What would the Denver & Rio Grande Western get if it hauled that same car from Salt Lake to Pueblo and longhauled it to Santa Fe on its own branch? / A. About 26 or 27 cents.1941, Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Abandonment of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Between Antonito, Colorado, and Santa Fe, New Mexico: Hearings before a...