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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
long-distance
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a long-distance call
▪ I’d like to make a long-distance call.
a long-distance commuter
▪ The fare increases will be bad news for long-distance commuters.
long-distance travel
▪ Long-distance travel is becoming much more common these days.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
business
▪ This segment is that represented by long-distance business travellers and executives.
call
▪ Taking a long-distance call still causes a certain turbulence here.
▪ Let us handle your long-distance calls, the letter said.
▪ Illiterates have no hope at all of calculating the expense of local service, let alone long-distance calls.
carrier
▪ The charge for switching long-distance carriers is $ 5.
▪ Calling circles give discounts when you call other customers of the same long-distance carrier you have.
▪ And long-distance carrier Sprint expects to announce similar services this summer.
▪ A coalition of cable television and long-distance carriers predicts it will take until next spring.
▪ The rate scheme set by the commission for this practice will determine how quickly long-distance carriers jump into the market.
▪ Regional telephone companies, long-distance carriers, and cable television operators are among the giants considering Internet forays.
▪ This is half what would be passed on if there were competition among long-distance carriers.
▪ They may join forces with any one of the seven regional phone companies or a long-distance carrier.
company
▪ PacTel already has sizable operations in San Ramon, and it just agreed to base its long-distance company in Pleasanton.
▪ The new law also states that long-distance companies will be allowed into local phone markets immediately.
▪ The new bill would allow close ties or outright mergers between local and long-distance companies.
▪ Today, most long-distance companies charge callers based on the duration of the call and the distance.
▪ In theory, the long-distance companies are supposed to have your signature on something before we switch you.
lorry
▪ There had been little traffic so far: mostly long-distance lorries.
▪ Three weeks later she had. gone off with a long-distance lorry driver.
▪ Polly the tea-lady was also going out - with Bri, the long-distance lorry driver, and their friends Len and Betty.
market
▪ The long-distance market is less politicized, he says.
▪ Price wars will erupt like the ones in the long-distance market.
▪ Moving to grab a share of the $ 70 billion long-distance market, Ameritech Corp.
▪ At the same time, San Francisco-based Pac Bell is gearing up to enter the long-distance market next year.
phone
▪ Then the Government quietly pulled out and turned the operation over to a handful of communications giants and the long-distance phone companies.
▪ She spends $ 100 a month in long-distance phone bills right now.
▪ If you thought choosing a long-distance phone carrier was tough, wait until you select a service provider.
▪ Norma Foglio still remembers one special long-distance phone call from her husband in the middle of the night.
▪ Black was hunting for a way to make durable amplifier relays for long-distance phone lines.
▪ Early next year it plans to offer long-distance phone service.
▪ The two women hardly know each other, but the bond, even across the long-distance phone line, is immediate.
runner
▪ So, for a moment, consider a long-distance runner who has collapsed near to the finish on one occasion.
▪ This is the loneliness of the long-distance runner.
▪ Even with recent improvements, the air could keep sprinters and long-distance runners wheezing through their events.
▪ No one by 1989 could doubt the Prime Minister's stamina as, politically, a long-distance runner.
▪ Occasionally long-distance runners would jog past, chatting quietly, their daily devotions almost done.
▪ As intended, it was the highlight of the film and successfully reflected the pain endured by long-distance runners.
service
▪ Sprint Corp. is offering small-business customers free long-distance service for calls made on Fridays.
▪ Chances are the long-distance service you use will give you miles, too.
▪ When Telmex was privatized in 1989, it agreed to give up its monopoly over long-distance service in January 1997.
▪ Helicopters are not suitable for long-distance service.
▪ Thursday became the first regional Bell telephone company to seek federal approval to offer long-distance service to its local customers in Michigan.
telephone
▪ I discovered this to be a useful tip, but not when it came to long-distance telephone calls.
▪ Pick up your dry cleaning and your clothes will come wrapped in plastic bags promoting Blockbuster or a new long-distance telephone service.
▪ It is possible, more or less, to make a long-distance telephone call.
▪ Domestic long-distance telephone calls often do not connect, and international calls can be nearly impossible.
▪ When the data hits local and long-distance telephone networks, the speed drops quickly to 2 megabytes.
▪ In a world that spends $ 500 billion a year on long-distance telephone charges, the potential is awesome.
▪ Demand for long-distance telephone service fell by half, because suddenly departments had to pay for what they used.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Long-distance bus service now links the cities.
▪ Long-distance phone calls have gotten so much cheaper.
▪ The development of long-distance commerce led to greater cultural contacts between continents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A visitor to Keld does not have to be a long-distance walker to enjoy the scenic delights of the environs.
▪ He predicts that at least one in 10 long-distance customers will jump to the regional Bell operating companies, or BOCs.
▪ Illiterates have no hope at all of calculating the expense of local service, let alone long-distance calls.
▪ Instead, they pay basic long-distance rates, which are the highest rates a residential customer can pay, the study says.
▪ It came at last, a huge long-distance coach, with high steps in the doorway.
▪ There had been little traffic so far: mostly long-distance lorries.
▪ We should therefore seek evidence for long-distance exchange as indications of political alliances and the growth of centralised political organisation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
long-distance

long-distance \long-distance\ adj. covering long distances; as, a long-distance runner; a long-distance telephone call.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
long-distance

1884, in reference to telephoning, from long (adj.) + distance (n.).

Wiktionary
long-distance

a. 1 Over a great length (e.g. a long-distance runner). 2 Referring to a non-local telephone call, a toll call

WordNet
long-distance

adj. covering long distances; "a long-distance runner"; "long-distance telephone"

long-distance

n. a telephone call made outside the local calling area [syn: long-distance call, trunk call]

Usage examples of "long-distance".

In mid-December he had asked permission to send 12 of the so-called long-distance 1,100-ton boats of Type IX to the east coast of the USA.

On the same trip, he actually stole a magnet crucial to long-distance telegraphy invented by Louis Breguet, and took it home with him to study at leisure.

NEEDING THE FRESH financial pastures to be found in the United Kingdom, Field also realized that the British government had an important interest in the success of the Atlantic cable in particular and in long-distance submarine cables in general.

The brutes just snarled at each other from a distance--tapping at each other long-distance, you know, saying cast and dassent, cast and dassent.

Rowell, Hughes, and Fitzgerald have astonishingly high records for long-distance running, comparing favorably with the older, and presumably mythical, feats of this nature.

British scientist and mathematician Oliver Heaviside, whose untidy theories and formulas made long-distance telephone communication possible.

I was panting long before I reached my destination, either because my feet lacked the benefit of orthotics or because my cardiovascular system had not yet been improved by long-distance running.

Leonard, a product of the Emerald Isle, was brought up in New Jersey, and excelled as an outfielder, being a splendid judge of high balls, a sure catch, and a swift and accurate long-distance thrower.

ESS across the nation, from small-capacity switches in rural towns to the very high capacity switches that processed long-distance traffic.

Regaining his composure, he told about the gruesome discovery of a trackwalker, the long-distance phone call that had brought tragedy over the singing wire.

Recalling those long-distance conversations from truckstop diners and backroad gas stations, her thoughts turned to the labor that had consumed Grillo in the half-decade since Palomo Grove: the Reef.

The chapter presidents will figure it out by long-distance telephone, then each will tell his people the night before the run, either at a meeting or by putting the word with a handful of bartenders, waitresses and plugged-in chicks who are known contacts.

The Chevy was horizontal across the three and four lanes, caught a centerpunch from a long-distance moving van, lifted, went tail-over onto its roof, sliding across the shoulder, followed Jimmy over the side two hundred yards beyond him and came to rest against a low hillside.

For example, long-distance travelers needed food at regular intervals, so the first cross-country train passengers were advised to pack their own dried or preserved foods to sustain their eight-day trek.

He had no wish to perfect himself in the hitting of long-distance balls, grounders, or treacherous bunts -- besides, Heini Kadlubek was a past master at long-distance balls.