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shorter-haul

shorter-haul is the comparative form of short-haul.

Meaning of short-haul

Adjective

short-haul (comparative shorter-haul, superlative shortest-haul)

  1. Traveling or involving a short distance.
    • The projected modal switch from car, coach and short-haul flights to rail remains very modest, despite all the evidence available from high-speed introductions elsewhere.2020 May 6, Jim Steer, “Full Business Case offers fresh insight into HS2's prospects”, in Rail, page 50

Questions about shorter-haul

What is shorter-haul the comparative form of?
Shorter-haul is the comparative form of short-haul.

Words near shorter-haul in the dictionary

  1. shorter-acting
  2. shorter-distance
  3. shorter-grain
  4. shorter-grained
  5. shorter-haired
  6. shorter-haul
  7. shorter-lived
  8. shorter-run
  9. shorter-term
  10. shorteralls
  11. shorters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shorter-haul (page history and authors); short-haul (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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