: traveling or involving a short distance
short-haul flights

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Nevertheless, the significant potential for the stock might emerge from the firm’s ambitions to electrify short-haul regional air travel by utilizing hybrid and fully electric propulsion technology. Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025 If large-scale trials confirm the 96 percent shock-wave reduction, the fix could remove one of the last major technical hurdles between experimental prototypes and a new era of cross-country travel that is faster than today’s steel-wheel trains yet cleaner than short-haul aviation. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025 But both experts also pointed to a more ordinary reason: the flexibility of short-haul travel. Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 31 July 2025 Delta’s Eddy told me that its regional jets and some short-haul planes, including the Boeing 717, are also still operating on air-to-ground service. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for short-haul

Word History

First Known Use

1895, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of short-haul was in 1895

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“Short-haul.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/short-haul. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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short-haul

adjective
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: traveling or involving a short distance
short-haul flights
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