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long haul
[ lawng hawl, long ]
noun
- a relatively long period of time, especially a period of considerable effort or difficulty: In the long haul, he'll regret having been a college dropout.
We are in this for the long haul and will continue pressing for change wherever we find avenues worth the pursuit.
In the long haul, he'll regret having been a college dropout.
It'll be a long haul before anyone can prove that a particular chemical causes this disease.
- a relatively great distance or journey:
It's a long haul from Maine to Texas.
- Nautical. the drawing up on shore of a vessel for a relatively long period of time, as for winter storage or longer.
adjective
- noting or relating to travel or transport of freight or passengers over relatively great distances, especially by truck or airplane:
Air India's first long-haul flight to London was launched on June 8, 1948.
- Pathology. relating to or being a condition characterized by symptoms or health problems that linger or first appear after supposed recovery from an associated acute illness or active infection: long-haul syndrome.
long-haul COVID;
long-haul syndrome.
long haul
noun
- a journey over a long distance, esp one involving the transport of goods
- a lengthy job
Word History and Origins
Origin of long haul1
Example Sentences
But on an A380 or 787 Dreamliner flying long haul, you can be trapped, rigid, in that seat for half a day.
Probably for the best—Disney is known for getting into legal battles for the long haul.
Forty years and one month of remodeling later, Zane had finally readied Further for its first long-haul journey.
But what they are being asked to do is doomed to fail—at least in the long haul.
His answer was clear: “We are in it for the long haul,” Isaacs said without hesitation.
Only low-grade and long haul carload traffic can profitably be concentrated.
It did not love Savannah less; but it loved its own particular seaport, Pensacola, or the long haul via Louisville, more.
Mrs. Ericson adjusted her polaroid glasses and waved her rickshaw boy into his harness, where his thighs tensed for the long haul.
But it's a long haul to Alpha Centauri—you know that—and a tremendously expensive one.
It was a long haul to Turkey Creek, but the caravan made it and was corralled before dark.
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