short line

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   a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances

   Broadertransportation system

Questions about short line

What does short line mean?

short line means "a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances".

Is short line a common word?

short line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.