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LONG-RUN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does long-run mean?
• LONG-RUN (adjective)
The adjective LONG-RUN has 1 sense:
1. relating to or extending over a relatively long time
Familiarity information: LONG-RUN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or extending over a relatively long time
Synonyms:
long-run; long-term; semipermanent
Context example:
a long-term investment
Similar:
long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)
Context examples
He follers her about, he makes hisself a sort o' servant to her, he loses in a great measure his relish for his wittles, and in the long-run he makes it clear to me wot's amiss.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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