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形容詞

long haul (not comparable)

1. (usually hyphenated) Travelling a long distance.

   a long-haul flight

反意語

• short haul

名詞

long haul (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 long hauls)

1. (idiomatic) A long time; the long term; an extended period.

   I thought it would be a short project, but now it looks like I'm in it for the long haul.

   • 2023 June 28, Mel Holley, “Network News: "In this for the long haul": mandate for further strikes”, in RAIL, number 986, page 16:

     The national rail dispute is set to grind on after ASLEF members voted to renew their mandate for strikes for a further six months […] . RMT members renewed their strike mandate for six more months in May […] . "Once again, our members have decided that we are in this for the long haul," said ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan after the ballot result.

2. a long distance

派生語

• for the long haul/over the long haul
• longhaul (verb)
• longhauled (adjective)
• longhauling (noun)

別の表記

• long-haul (verb)

語源

From long haul.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒŋhɔːl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔŋhɔl/, /lɑŋ-/
• ハイフネーション: long‧haul

動詞

longhaul (三人称単数 現在形 longhauls, 現在分詞 longhauling, 過去形および過去分詞形 longhauled)

1. To travel a long distance.
   • 2008 July, Tony Soper, “Arctic Tern: Sterna paradisaea”, in Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife, 5th edition, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire: Bradt Travel Guides; Guilford, Ct.: The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 203:

     Though they breed in the High Arctic summer, Arctic terns 'winter' south in the austral summer, thus living a life of perpetual summer and almost endless daylight in the classic example of 'globe-spanning'. […] Longhauling 22,000 miles a year they are the only northern breeding species which migrates regularly to Antarctic waters.

   • 2016, Annie O'Neill, One Night, Twin Consequences (Monticello Baby Miracles), London: Mills & Boon, →ISBN:

     The words hung between them, heavy with self-recrimination. Harriet shook her head. What was the point in this? More Poor me before she long-hauled it back across the Atlantic? She had enough baggage, thank you very much.

2. To transport goods over long distances.
   • 1941, Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Abandonment of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Between Antonito, Colorado, and Santa Fe, New Mexico: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 82, a Resolution Relating to the Abandonment of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company between Antonito, Colorado, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 1, 2, 3, and 5, 1941, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, OCLC 4177046, page 178:

     Q. What would the Denver & Rio Grande Western get if it hauled that same car from Salt Lake to Pueblo and longhauled it to Santa Fe on its own branch? / A. About 26 or 27 cents.

   • 1954, Foreign Trade Zones in the U.S.A. (Technical Assistance Mission; 28), Paris: Organisation for European Economic Cooperation, OCLC 604396804, page 53:

     […] Foreign Trade Zone cargoes may be discharged at Berth 60 and longhauled with stevedoring equipment into Foreign Trade Zone No. 4.

   • 1995 December, “Description of the Applicant's Proposed Project and Other Alternatives”, in Draft Federal Environmental Impact Statement: Resource Investments Inc. Landfill Facility, volume I, Seattle, Wash.: United States Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, OCLC 33860670, page 2-3:

     Integrated Solid Waste Management Program, Based on Waste Reduction, Recycling, and Out-of-Country Landfilling (i.e., Longhaul): This alternative would have required the same practices for waste reduction and recycling as the previous alternative. Instead of developing a new in-county landfill, remaining solid waste would be disposed of in existing landfills and longhauled to an out-of-country landfill once the existing landfills reached their capacity.

   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN:

     You need to get into long-distance moving. […] I got a cousin in Alabama, which he's based in Birmingham, gets plenty of work long-hauling furniture and whatnot.

   • 2015, Mary Kay Andrews, Beach Town: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

     I got a couple guys who work for me part time, doing body work and painting, but I do most of the longhauling myself, delivering cars to locations.

関連する語

• long haul
• longhauled (adjective)
• longhauling (noun)