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Meaning of short-distance | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Relating to travel between places relatively close together.

Equivalents

Polski krótkodystansowy

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

short-fetched short-haired short-handed short-haul short-legged short-lived

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