The Collaborative International Dictionary
long-run \long-run\ adj. 1. relating to or extending over a relatively long time; as, the long-run significance of the elections.
Syn: long-term.
WordNet
adj. relating to or extending over a relatively long time; "the long-run significance of the elections"; "the long-term reconstruction of countries damaged by the war"; "a long-term investment" [syn: long-term, semipermanent]
Usage examples of "long-run".
British paleontologist Richard Fortey has written with regard to a long-running twentieth-century dispute over where the boundary lies between the Cambrian and Ordovician.
The new battle became an argument between catastrophism and uniformitarianism—unattractive terms for an important and very long-running dispute.
Never married, he had come close during a long-running relationship with Congresswoman Loren Smith, but their lives were too complicated.
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.
The loyal opposition has not distinguished itself in the course of this long-running nightmare.
There was even a long-running play on Broadway, and a hit movie film.