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last mile

UK/ˌlɑːst ˈmaɪl/US/ˌlæst ˈmaɪl/
nounC1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

The last mile is the final stage of delivery to the customer's door. Solve the last mile.

It costs more than the thousands of miles before it, because every drop is different. The last mile is why a parcel crosses the world in three days and sits in a depot for two.

Mariordo Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of last mile

  1. 1nounlast mileThe final stage of delivery to the customer's door.C1

    “The last mile was half the cost of the whole journey.”

last mile is a stage.

Practised in Shipping & Logistics

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