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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Relating to travel between places relatively close together..
I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.
Short-distance rail travel in this district has been a doubtful proposition ever since buses were introduced.
The PM hit the headlines again for taking short-distance air travel rather than rail.
Use short-distance when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Short-distance means Relating to travel between places relatively close together..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include long-distance.
I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.
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