Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of operating at a short distance away 2 Hit, shot, or taken from nearby the target
Usage examples of "close-range".
According to history the English longbowmen of medieval times had been without equal in the range and accuracy of their arrows and such extra-powerful weapons should eliminate close-range stalking of woods goats and afford better protection from unicorns.
A voice with such lovely ringing tones could have turned every male head down both sides of the Champs-Elyskes, but in the billiard saloon of the Grand Hotel of woman-starved Bulawayo, it had the effect of a close-range broadside of grapeshot.
If he got drawn into a close-range dogfight against a more agile opponent, she might just get lucky and score a hit or two in the right place before she died.
The return trajectory carried back up to the ledge, where robots were running to and fro in confusion and waving things in the air, with a few—presumably the radiosensitive types that Dave Crookes had speculated about—writhing around on the floor under the close-range influence of the flyer’s mapping radar.
The return trajectory carried back up to the ledge, where robots were running to and fro in confusion and waving things in the air, with a few—presumably the radiosensitive types that Dave Crookes had speculated about— writhing around on the floor under the close-range influence of the flyer's mapping radar.
The commandos' weapons were useless against the Iranian infantry--they'd brought weapons only for close-range work, not to shoot it out with infantry forces.
Besides, I'll need both pistols--any fighting that happens here will be close-range work.
He longed to turn on her, finish her off, and get the hell away to safety, but all the old arguments against a close-range action remained.
Vice Admiral Josef Matucek, commanding the Republican van, watched in horror as his superdreadnoughts transited into a holocaust of close-range beam fire.