backhaul
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backhaul (third-person singular simple present backhauls, present participle backhauling, simple past and past participle backhauled)
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backhaul (countable and uncountable, plural backhauls)
- (transport) A return trip after delivery of cargo.
- Low rates for backhaul account for the huge volume of waste paper shipped to Asia from the US.
- (military) The shipment of material to or through an area from which the material had previously been shipped.[1]
- (travel, aviation, fare construction) Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).
- (broadcasting) Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show.
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- ^ US FM 55-15 Transportation Reference Data; 9 June 1886