Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
long-serving
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dole and Gramm, to be sure, enjoy fund-raising advantages of their own, as powerful long-serving senators.
▪ During 1948 two long-serving members of staff retired.
▪ It is the day when Jean Fabre, the president-in-waiting, takes over from the long-serving incumbent Albert Ferrasse.
▪ Palace beat Watford 3-0, with these two men performing really well together and beginning another of Palace's long-serving full-back partnerships.
▪ Repeated calls for Mr Mubarak to change his long-serving and mediocre cast of ministers have so far been ignored.
▪ Systems topple, statues walk, long-serving political incumbents take a hike in a huge global shake-up.
Usage examples of "long-serving".
Brother Tommy was manager of the factory, Gertie the long-serving chargehand who had worked in East End sweatshops as a girl and spent twenty-four years in the civilized conditions estab lished by Sammy, Tommy and Boots.