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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
long-range
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bomber
▪ On May 19, 1955, in an air show, the Soviets displayed impressive quantities of their latest long-range bombers.
forecast
▪ The long-range forecast prophesies Mean temperatures and azure skies.
▪ Yet few economists are comfortable with the reliability of such long-range forecasts.
goal
▪ These long-range goals shape our long-term training plans.
▪ The long-range goal of the project is to reintroduce the razorback sucker into the river just above Imperial Dam.
▪ Biblical leadership is an act of love, because it has the long-range goal of doing the best for those being led.
missile
▪ Hekmatyar's fighters quickly joined the fray, launching long-range missile attacks into the city against Masud's forces.
▪ It revealed 10,000 chemical bombs, as well as 50 Scud missiles, including at least 30 with chemical warheads for long-range missiles.
plan
▪ Its initial long-range plan, published in 1962, called for $ 400 million in capital improvements from the-state.
▪ Club range officers would also undergo additional training, and the club would put together a long-range plan.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the city's long-range development plans
▪ There are fears that the country has produced long-range missiles capable of reaching across the border.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Club range officers would also undergo additional training, and the club would put together a long-range plan.
▪ Hekmatyar's fighters quickly joined the fray, launching long-range missile attacks into the city against Masud's forces.
▪ Their long-range dream of flying was probably grounded, however.
▪ These long-range goals shape our long-term training plans.
▪ We wanted some one who had a long-range view.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
long-range

long-range \long-range\ adj.

  1. involving an extended span of time; -- of plans, goals, or predictions; as, long-range goals; a long-range weather forecast.

  2. suitable for or reaching long distances; as, a long-range missile; long-range nuclear capability.

Wiktionary
long-range

a. 1 Capable of operating over a great distance. 2 Involving a great period of time. 3 travelling over a long distance

WordNet
long-range
  1. adj. involving an extended span of time; "long-range goals"

  2. suitable for or reaching long distances; "long-range nuclear capability"

Usage examples of "long-range".

He pickeled off his own long-range antiair missile, then turned his attention to the countermeasures and maneuvers he would need to evade the American missiles.

But worst of all, the rise of modern refrigeration and long-range shipping turned local apples into a novelty, not a necessity.

He had little room to spare between his front and the sea, and a break-through, far less extensive than that which had been effected in March, would give the Germans the coast of the Straits of Dover, enable them to bombard the Kentish shore, hamper the port of London, and perhaps reach it with long-range guns like those with which they had occasionally bombarded Paris since 23 March.

Colony 6 was a possible long-range problem, some day, because, despite its nearness to Flat territory, we were the ones to discover that nearby cluster of breakpoints into subspace, opening up promising routes for future colonization.

Culverins and demiculverins are long-range guns, painstakingly cast of fine bell bronze and hellishly expensive, designed to use a smaller caliber, lighter-weight ball, to provide finer accuracy at a distance than could any cannon.

Long-range plans entailed exporting an additional 3 billion kwh to Turkey and eventually providing Kuwait with electricity.

The Primes were using the same long-range injection strategy in all of them.

World War II, when the Japanese fleet had had air superiority, or when the Germans had used long-range Condors to circle convoys, radioing their positions to any interested party, and not a thing the Allies back then could do about it.

They were well-armed, with heavy machine guns, mortars, rockets, flamethrowers, artillery, and just about anything the Rebels had with the exception of tanks and extremely long-range artillery.

The street punks and the creepies also realized that while they had been terribly shortsighted as to their future, Ben Raines and the Rebels had carefully looked at the long-range picture.

Three hundred fellow beings pushed together in a bar, and there I would be, maybe firing hard-hitting, long-range rimfire bullets.

If we could employ radar methods to find their positions and to direct long-range fighters or shipborne aircraft to the attack we ought to be able to inflict serious casualties.

Our initial long-range surveys of Tlaoli indicated that its ecosystems have been incapable of sustaining animal life for several millions of years.

Julie had personally overseen the training of the Thuringian Rifles, the first company of true long-range snipers in history.

An all-weather interceptor, the F-14 has transoceanic range, Mach 2 speed, and a radar computer fire-control system that can lock onto and attack six separate targets with long-range Phoenix air-to-air missiles.