Short-distance
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Short-distance is an adjective meaning Relating to travel between places relatively close together.
Meaning
Relating to travel between places relatively close together.
Example Sentences
The PM hit the headlines again for taking short-distance air travel rather than rail.
Short-distance rail travel in this district has been a doubtful proposition ever since buses were introduced.
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.
Word Forms
- shorter-distance
- shortest-distance
Antonyms for short-distance
Common opposites include long-distance.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include transportational, microgeographical, relocational, translative, hyperlocal, short-term.
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