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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lengthy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lengthy absence
▪ The injury may mean a lengthy absence from the team.
a long/lengthy battle
▪ his long battle with alcoholism
a long/lengthy delay
▪ Patients often face long delays in getting the treatment they need.
a long/lengthy description
▪ I didn't want to hear a lengthy description of their holiday.
a long/lengthy period
▪ They had to spend long periods apart.
long/lengthy
▪ Try to be patient through the long process of healing.
long/lengthy
▪ After lengthy negotiations, a compromise was finally reached.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
delay
▪ Drivers faced lengthy delays on the sodden A4 between Newbury and Hungerford.
▪ That means long lines and lengthy delays at skycap stations and ticket counters.
▪ This restrictive covenant is often included in village or rural sites and can result in lengthy delays and extreme frustration.
discussion
▪ Then began lengthy discussions on ways and means.
▪ After lengthy discussion, B telephones her cousin, who is an important politician in the local government.
▪ The second point, which requires a more lengthy discussion, concerns the changing social composition of the electorate.
▪ There was lengthy discussion on which format the Tournament should take as there was no specific programme or rules to follow.
▪ The accused, Eddie Gilfoyle, 32, listened attentively to the lengthy discussions.
▪ Unlike their Soviet counterparts, few western texts indulged in lengthy discussion of a work's subject matter.
▪ Charity commissioners admit they have been in lengthy discussions with Jansen's solicitors about her position with the charitable foundation.
▪ There followed a lengthy discussion on how best to assist future volunteers.
interview
▪ These were avoided, as the homeless mentally ill tend to have a low toleration for lengthy interviews.
▪ It also conducted lengthy interviews with survivors from Hitler's bunker and pieced together the dictator's final hours.
investigation
▪ The Observer newspaper published a lengthy investigation which claimed that there was substantial discrimination by elite regiments against potential black recruits.
letter
▪ They sent her a demo tape and a lengthy letter.
▪ Inside was rather lengthy letter from a nudist who lives next to Bonaventure cemetery.
list
▪ Jackey is the most colourful in a lengthy list of aristocratic thugs, and the Countess provides an element of sophisticated sexuality.
▪ Select Folder from the lengthy list that appears and then click on Edit.
negotiation
▪ Managers tolerated the disturbance and entered lengthy negotiations.
▪ The friendly deal was struck after lengthy negotiations between lawyers and Official Solicitor David Venables, the girl's court-appointed guardian.
period
▪ Some consolidators have been in business a lengthy period, but many come and go.
▪ Ideally, you will be due a lengthy period of notice if your employer wishes you to leave.
▪ It immobilized a lot of capital for a lengthy period, and was not without dangers.
▪ Some displays may remain in place for lengthy periods.
▪ Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended.
process
▪ This is hardly surprising as establishing new artists is a costly and lengthy process.
▪ For some, the feeling that they were making progress was all that kept them going through the painful and lengthy process.
▪ The purchase process for a new house, car, cooker or video recorder may have been a quite lengthy process.
▪ I find this a lengthy process, even Nanette Newman's bubbles don't do the job first time.
▪ The preparation of legislation is often a lengthy process.
▪ Macari may find he has to sell before he can buy, so rebuilding could be a lengthy process.
▪ Timing From the original brief to air-date, making a commercial is a lengthy process.
▪ There is no time now to spend on the lengthy process of building flesh and bone.
report
▪ Berret sat down dejectedly to write his lengthy report.
▪ Most set aside a few days or, worse, a single day to write that lengthy report or proposal.
▪ Sunrise Medical said in a lengthy report on the probe, which began in late October.
▪ This could mean the difference between minutes or even hours of work for lengthy reports and proposals.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a lengthy financial report
▪ a lengthy two-volume book
▪ a lengthy, two-volume book on conditions in modern China
▪ Creating a new network system is a lengthy process.
▪ He later completed a lengthy study of Figurative Art.
▪ He was indicted on drug charges after a lengthy investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
▪ Paul should expect a lengthy period of recovery from surgery.
▪ She died of natural causes after a lengthy illness.
▪ The President gave a lengthy address to the nation on CBS last night.
▪ The procedures for bringing a body back for burial are lengthy and complex.
▪ The runways have reopened, but travelers have been warned to expect lengthy delays.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I intend to have a thoroughly enjoyable and lengthy period without paid work.
▪ Later, he tried to call the reporter near the holidays, and even wrote a lengthy poem.
▪ The lengthy test programme involved laboratory testing and exposure to sea climate.
▪ There are stories of that event also, but it would make this too lengthy.
▪ They were both told of the lengthy queues when they rang to take children there for aid.
▪ With shops filling nearly four square blocks, the walk will be invigorating but not lengthy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lengthy

Lengthy \Length"y\ (-[y^]), a. [Compar. Lengthier (-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Lengthiest.] Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. ``Lengthy periods.''
--Washington. ``Some lengthy additions.''
--Byron. ``These would be details too lengthy.''
--Jefferson. ``To cut short lengthy explanations.''
--Trench.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lengthy

1759, American English, from length + -y (2). Until c.1840 always characterized in British English as an Americanism.\n\nThis word has been very common among us, both in writing and in the language of conversation; but it has been so much ridiculed by Americans as well as Englishmen, that in writing it is now generally avoided. Mr. Webster has admitted it into his dictionary; but as need hardly be remarked it is not in any of the English ones. It is applied by us, as Mr. Webster justly observes, chiefly to writings or discourses. Thus we say, a lengthy pamphlet, a lengthy sermon, &c. The English would say, a long or (in the more familiar style) a longish sermon. [John Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816] \n\nRelated: Lengthily; lengthiness.

Wiktionary
lengthy

a. Having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension.

WordNet
lengthy

  1. adj. relatively long in duration; tediously protracted; "a drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations" [syn: drawn-out, extended, prolonged, protracted]

  2. [also: lengthiest, lengthier]

Usage examples of "lengthy".

Black Coat Press, translated with a lengthy Introduction and Afterword by Brian Stableford.

He and Alise, Ulaf, and Rigiswald often held lengthy discussions concerning magic, including Void magicks.

The rest of the way back to The Mirage, Hawk and I had a lengthy discussion as to who would tail Bibi in the morning and who would sleep in.

The policeman opened a briefcase, stamped the documents in several places, then made out a lengthy form, occasionally asking Bluey questions.

I eyed it wistfully for a moment, and then, unable any longer to stand on ceremony, plunged my hand into the yielding mass, and to the boisterous mirth of the natives drew it forth laden with the poee-poee, which adhered in lengthy strings to every finger.

The ensuing conversation between these two and a deeply interested and much-impressed solicitor resulted in the dispatch of a lengthy cablegram to St.

The rector, after examining the localities and submitting to a lengthy interrogatory first my accomplice, who very naturally was considered as the most guilty, and then myself, whom nothing could convict of the offence, ordered us to get up and go to church to attend mass.

After lengthy weighing of the pros and cons, during which he became painfully aware that his seat of jurisdiction had been badly bruised beneath that confounded bell-pull, the jury at last managed to agree upon one point, that the corpse in question was the remains of one Gabriel Creach which everyone had known in the beginning.

Yuri Lemingov was transferred out of the epidemiology section of our institute and assigned to a lengthy study of hospital-acquired infection in a treatment facility in St.

He kept looking at the control-tower door expecting Erg Noor to appear with his usual rapid movements although he knew that the awakening from prolonged sleep is a lengthy process.

Third, they all had lengthy experiences of exile or expatriation that profoundly affected the course of their lives and the development of their ideas.

Thus, filibuster includes the introduction of dilatory motions, intentional absence from the assembly to prevent a quorum, or lengthy speechmaking.

Their fluctuating and often lengthy lists of ingredients combined distilled spirits and wine with ginger, galangal, and sometimes cardamom among other spices and herbs.

Nell had dubbed the Generalissima, issued a lengthy series of orders, running to each of the four edges of the table to address different contingents of the Mouse Army.

Keepress, and when they came together after a lengthy separation, he gave her a blade, the match of his own, with such a gol drop embedded in the hilt.