Meaning of short-distance | Babel Free

Definitions

Relating to travel between places relatively close together.

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.”

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