: traveling or involving a short distance
short-haul flights

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Airlines are currently planning to reschedule long-haul flights to mitigate disruptions, while short-haul services leaving Tuesday may not return immediately, the people familiar said. Danny Lee, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025 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 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 3 Oct. 2025.

Kids Definition

short-haul

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