long-haul

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English

Adjective

long-haul (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of long haul.
    • 1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683:
      American railroads are not permitted to operate long-haul road routes, but the I.C.C. decision of 1954 did permit them to solicit trailer business in, say, New York for Chicago provided the trailer was piggybacked in between.

Noun

long-haul (countable and uncountable, plural long-hauls)

  1. Alternative spelling of long haul.

Verb

long-haul (third-person singular simple present long-hauls, present participle long-hauling, simple past and past participle long-hauled)

  1. Alternative spelling of longhaul.