cross-channel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cross channel
form: cross-Channel
Etymology: From cross- + channel.
Senses: examples: text: The intelligent ship-owner will rejoice to find, that in the partition of trade, which is the inevitable consequence of a state of peace, England still retains the lion's share; whilst for a fine weather and cross channel trade, our neighbours (to use a mariner's phrase) can put to sea in a hencoop, the superiority of our ships and crews secures a preference for British bottoms where dangers are to be run and risks surmounted.
ref: 1834, Michael Thomas Sadler, “The Sadlerian School of Political Economy”, in Selections from the Edinburgh review, volume 6, page 154:
text: the Gauls, who carried on the cross-channel trade between Gaul and Britain, were the inhabitants of the northern coast.
ref: 1858 (May 1) Notes & Queries, 2nd Series, v.122 p.349
text: was it not worth while ... for the country to ... make Dover Harbour really safe and adequate ... they thereby greatly promoted the convenience and safety of the cross-Channel traffic
ref: 1876 (May 23) Baron Carlingford, House of Commons, v229 c1108
text: With her graceful lines she is a fine example of the modern cross-channel steamer, and her interior arrangements are considerably superior to those of her predecessors.
ref: 1939 June, G. W. Tripp, “The Modern Railway Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 392:
text: Montgomery to command the British land forces under Eisenhower in the cross-Channel invasion
ref: 1951 October 29, “F.D.R.'s big decision”, in Life, page 76:
text: The continued growth of cross-Channel traffic, the urgent question of the renewal of the short-sea fleet of the B.T.C. and its installations, and the possible entry of Britain into the Common Market make an early decision on the tunnel highly desirable, if not vital.
ref: 1961 December, “The Channel Tunnel—a realistic proposal”, in Trains Illustrated, page 722:
text: The poll, a joint cross-channel venture carried out by ICM in Britain and BVA Institute in France on behalf of the Guardian and the newspaper Libération, follows a difficult period in Anglo-French history in the wake of the Iraq conflict.
ref: 2004 April 5, Nicholas Watt, “After 100 years, we love France - but they don't like us and we don't like them”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The historians Robert and Isabelle Tombs explain it as "an effective way of delivering insults", in their book That Sweet Enemy, about cross-Channel relations.
ref: 2009 March 28, Angelique Chrisafis, “The mystery of the bikini-clad minister”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The TSSA said that access to the furlough scheme should be reinstated for the cross-Channel operator to protect jobs, while the RMT said a financial 'safety net' was needed to prevent Eurostar "tipping over". It follows similar but unheeded calls made at the very start of the pandemic, when international travel fell by more than 95% and Eurostar was forced to scale back its operation to just one service between London and Paris each day.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Unions urge government to provide financial support for Eurostar”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
glosses: That travels across a channel of water; relating to somewhere on the opposite side of the channel
Relating to the English Channel; to, from, or on the Continent; involving both Britain and the Continent, especially France
examples: text: Effect on the Revenue by the alteration of the Cross Channel Trade: The Acts of last Session of Parliament in regard to the removal of foreign goods between Great Britain and Ireland...
ref: 1825 (February 24) House of Lords Sessional Papers, v.120: Tenth report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Collection and Management of the Revenue arising in Ireland, Scotland, etc. p.233
text: the complete freedom given to general commercial intercourse, by which the cross-channel trade was made, by 6th Geo. 4th c. 107, a coasting-trade; and the intercourse with Ireland was left as unrestricted as that between London and Newcastle.
ref: 1834 (April 23) Thomas Spring Rice, House of Commons, v22 c1208
text: Arriving in Dublin from the Cross Channel steamer
ref: 1940 (June), Norman Somerville, The Rotarian, "Rotary in a Confused World", p.7
text: The Central Statistics Office publishes annual figures on the estimated total earnings from all visits to Ireland. These figures include a breakdown into the following categories for overseas travel routes: air cross-channel, sea cross-channel, continental and transatlantic.
ref: 2005 (November 29) Tom Kitt, Dáil Éireann, v611 c8
text: 2008 (January 23) Tommy Marren, Western People "All-Ireland League could be soccer’s saviour"
Our fascination for cross-channel soccer never ceases to amaze me. We head to places like Old Trafford, Stamford Bridge and even Elland Road week in week out in our droves to support teams that have little or no Irish involvement yet we find little or no attraction in attending matches in the eircom League that are virtually on our doorstep.
glosses: That travels across a channel of water; relating to somewhere on the opposite side of the channel
Relating to the body of water between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland (the Irish Sea, Saint George's Channel, and the North Channel); to, from, or in the other of the two islands
raw_tags: in British