transcription, транскрипция: [ hɔ:l ]
( hauls, hauling, hauled)
1.
If you haul something which is heavy or difficult to move, you move it using a lot of effort.
A crane had to be used to haul the car out of the stream...
She hauled up her bedroom window and leaned out.
VERB : V n prep / adv , V adv n
2.
If someone is hauled before a court or someone in authority, they are made to appear before them because they are accused of having done something wrong.
He was hauled before the managing director and fired.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed before n
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Haul up means the same as haul .
He was hauled up before the Board of Trustees...
PHRASAL VERB : usu passive
3.
A haul is a quantity of things that are stolen, or a quantity of stolen or illegal goods found by police or customs.
The size of the drugs haul shows that the international trade in heroin is still flourishing...
N-COUNT : with supp
4.
If you say that a task or a journey is a long haul , you mean that it takes a long time and a lot of effort.
Revitalising the Romanian economy will be a long haul.
PHRASE
see also long-haul