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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
long-haul
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a long-haul flight (=travelling a long distance)
▪ You should wear comfortable clothes on a long-haul flight.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
flight
▪ It's jet lag and it affects nearly everyone on long-haul flights.
▪ By comparison with trying to sleep on the cramped seating of today's long-haul flights it was luxury indeed.
▪ The aunts have brought more baggage than the passengers Rainbow takes to long-haul flights at Heathrow.
route
▪ Hence the decision to buy smaller wide-body jets for long-haul routes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ long-haul routes between Europe and Asia
▪ It's so much nicer to fly business class on long-haul flights.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By comparison with trying to sleep on the cramped seating of today's long-haul flights it was luxury indeed.
▪ Hence the decision to buy smaller wide-body jets for long-haul routes.
▪ It's jet lag and it affects nearly everyone on long-haul flights.
▪ Mamet has never pretended to be a long-haul writer and sees time the way the early Elizabethans did, as a destroyer.
▪ Now he hisses and spins in jumps while powder ice clings to the air but by trade he's a long-haul skater.
▪ Table 11.9 shows Kuoni's top long-haul destinations in 1983-4.
▪ The aunts have brought more baggage than the passengers Rainbow takes to long-haul flights at Heathrow.
▪ The other main sector of interest given in Table 11.8 is the long-haul category.
Wiktionary
long-haul

a. (alternative spelling of long haul English) n. (alternative spelling of long haul English)

Usage examples of "long-haul".

One continued to climb but the other, an orbital monitor with a lighter hull than the long-haul vessel, caromed out of the port reservation and dropped.

Bobby chugged the Mountain Dew, enough sugar to induce in him a diabetic coma, enough caffeine to keep a long-haul trucker awake through a five-hundred-mile run.

For about the first thirty seconds after the dome light has gone off and the Shaftoes have finished saying their prayers out loud, Randy lies there feeling the Impala rock on its suspension from the wake-blasts of passing long-haul semis and feels considerably more alienated than he did while trying to sleep in the jeepney in the jungle town in northern Luzon.

He, his brother, and four other young men who were quick and owned good horses had been hired as scouts, riding drogue-and-forward, protecting a long-haul caravan of seven freightwagons taking goods - seeds, food, tools, mail, and four ordered brides - to an unincorporated township called Tejuas some two hundred miles further west of Eluria.

It seemed faintly obscene to find the exact same metal walls painted in the exact same shades recommended by long-haul jump psychologistswarm reds and golds in the mess hall, cool and soothing pastel blues and greens in the passenger and crew cabinsand the exact same shipboard schedules and routines.

This system will center on a new generation of rockets, exploiting nuclear power, which will revolutionize and routinize long-haul interplanetary flights.