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long-term

[ lawng-turm, long- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

covering a relatively long period of time:
a long-term lease.
maturing over or after a relatively long period of time:
a long-term loan; a long-term bond.
(of a capital gain or loss) derived from the sale or exchange of an asset held for more than a specified time, as six months or one year.

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First recorded in 1905–10

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Diets not only fail to make us thinner, they also fail to make us healthier in the long term.

Last year, it let an unemployment extension for the long-term jobless expire during the holidays.

Recovery from a long-term eating disorder is a bit of a statistical anomaly.

It's probably necessary for success in the long term, but it's far, far, far from sufficient.

It is a horrific and inconvenient truth, but paying ransoms to free hostages invariably worsens the problem in the long-term.

Formerly charters were granted to corporations for a long term of years, or forever.

A great wall runs through the centre, dividing the long-term from the short-term prisoners.

Many a spy of the Kaiser had tried to pry there and had been arrested and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.

Long-term mining and exploitation can't be done by anything but a self-sustaining colony.

For long-term applications, one may wish to dig a hole in the ground to hold the Funnel against strong winds.

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