Crossword clues for long-term
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
long-term
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a long-term decline (=happening for a long time)
▪ The long-term decline in the manufacturing industry is still continuing.
a long-term goal (=that you hope to achieve after a long time)
▪ The organization’s long-term goal is to gain a strong position in the European market.
a long-term impact
▪ Scientists are calculating the long-term impact of the floods.
a long-term investment (=one that will give you profit after a long time)
▪ Buying a house is a long-term investment.
a long-term relationship
▪ I have a seven-year-old daughter from a previous long-term relationship.
a long-term solution (=one that will be effective for a long time)
▪ A long-term solution to the problem will not be possible until that conflict is resolved.
a long-term strategy
▪ The closure of these branches is part of our long-term strategy.
a long-term/abiding interest (=an interest you have had for a long time)
▪ She has had a long-term interest in antiques.
a long-term/short-term loan (=to be paid back after a long/short time)
▪ I intended the money as a short-term loan.
a long/long-term lease
▪ We’re negotiating a long-term lease on the building.
long-term commitment
▪ Having a child together involves a long-term commitment.
long-term consequences (=results that last a long time, or appear after a long time)
▪ If you smoke it may have long-term consequences.
long-term memory (=your ability to remember things that happened a long time ago)
▪ Most people's long-term memory is limited.
long-term survival
▪ The long-term survival of polar bears is at risk.
long-term unemployment (=when people are unemployed for a long period of time)
▪ It can be difficult to help people out of long-term unemployment.
long-term
▪ Long-term planning centers on ensuring the future growth of the company.
long-term/regular employment (=working for the same company for a long time)
▪ She finally found regular employment at a hospital in York.
short-term/long-term care
▪ The home provides short-term care for elderly people.
the long-term answer
▪ He believes hydrogen is the long-term answer to our growing energy crisis.
the long-term unemployed (=people who have not had a job for a long time)
▪ a retraining scheme for the long-term unemployed
the long-term/short-term effect (=having an effect for a long or short time)
▪ Many boxers suffer with the long-term effects of punches to the head.
the ultimate/eventual/long-term aim (=that you hope to achieve in the end)
▪ The ultimate aim is to replace gasoline with non-polluting energy sources.
the underlying/long-term trend (=the trend over a long period of time)
▪ The underlying trend is for rich economies to get richer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
aim
▪ The long-term aim of the naturalisation of economic relations was still central to Bukharin's view of socialism.
▪ Our long-term aim is to change industry's perception of the mathematical sciences and to show the commercial benefits they can offer.
▪ They provide a basis for evaluating shorter-term budgets and prevent long-term aims from being forced aside by short-term operational needs.
▪ The group's long-term aim is to get into non-Bull sites to deliver its consultancy and networking services.
▪ Gascoigne deduced disagreement over long-term aims between the War and State departments.
▪ Returning to competitions should be a long-term aim, provided the physiotherapist and the carers feel it is realistic.
basis
▪ What we need is a stable economic climate that encourages companies to invest on a consistent, long-term basis.
▪ People who succeed are eating less and exercising and doing it on a long-term basis....
▪ Women with severe emotional problems may need counselling on a long-term basis.
▪ It aims to manage those resources in concert and on a long-term basis for the benefit of the local human population.
benefit
▪ That has to be to the long-term benefit of the profession and of the wider community.
▪ The long-term benefits are an earlier return to the international lending markets.
▪ That would put people back to work and give long-term benefits to the economy.
▪ This trend should be encouraged because of its immediate and long-term benefits. 4.
▪ But doubts surround the long-term benefits.
▪ Daily relaxation exercIses will enhance the benefit of the time allotted for a massage and contribute to the long-term benefits.
▪ The therapist should also reward any positive changes by expressing satisfaction and by indicating their potential long-term benefits.
▪ Theyor actually, their salaries and long-term benefits-look bad on the books.
business
▪ Profits from long-term business under the accruals method totalled £738m, compared with £385m as previously reported.
▪ Avon was compulsively focused on long-term business plans.
▪ It is success for the second time for Mr Myers and his long-term business partner Karen Jones.
▪ As all Hanson businesses are for sale at all times, why should headquarters asset-strip a good long-term business for short-term gain?
▪ Experience of devising and managing short-and long-term business development strategies, setting and achievement of objectives, and budget management.
▪ These are the same characteristics you get in our long-term business.
capital
▪ The aim of the new trust - which will have an initial ten-year life - will be long-term capital growth.
▪ The Mercantile invests for long-term capital growth with emphasis on emerging companies worldwide.
▪ The aim is to achieve a high level of income with the prospect of long-term capital growth.
▪ There is a separate question of whether free flows of long-term capital can be encouraged while discouraging some short-term capital movements.
▪ Correspondingly this affected the basic balance, i.e. the current balance plus the balance of long-term capital flow.
▪ Added to an already heavy outflow of long-term capital, the flight of dollars became a rout.
care
▪ Three of these decisions relate to, among other things, health authority provision of long-term care.
▪ The suit further alleges that the sheik reneged on repeated oral pledges to provide for her long-term care.
▪ This was an influential study which broadly supported the view that permanent substitute parents should be found for children in long-term care.
▪ It would make long-term care insurance and expenses tax-deductible.
▪ Insurance contracts for long-term care have recently been introduced to the market, and this will be an area of actuarial development.
▪ And we have a very inadequate system for long-term care or assistance for people with chronic medical conditions.
▪ It may have to be accepted that recurrent brief admissions are a necessary part of the long-term care of such a patient.
▪ You can need long-term care because of a disabling accident or a chronic illness.
change
▪ These examples are of short-term changes, and it may well be that long-term changes are even more marked.
▪ Or I could make serious, long-term changes and hope to live to a ripe old age.
▪ The air samples could give scientists vital information about long-term changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
▪ Only the archaeologist can obtain that perspective, and hence seek some understanding of the processes of long-term change.
▪ If long-term changes were taking place, the Commission's forests were not the place to look for them.
▪ Short-term emergency measures perpetuated a division along social grounds that inhibited long-term change.
▪ Maybe a more urgent question is how households are reorganising their economic activities as old industrial structures are modified by long-term change.
▪ In particular, it will look at long-term changes which have affected the structure of jobs available to young people.
commitment
▪ High quality programmes need long-term commitment and funding.
▪ But in general it is only through love for specific children that a society evokes long-term commitments from its members.
▪ This may mean you are ready to make a long-term commitment.
▪ But its use still requires an enlightened management and a long-term commitment.
▪ Over and above such dramatic ingredients of change and stress you probably have a long-term commitment which is stressful too.
▪ I think that he accepts that that would constitute a long-term commitment, and a hazardous and dangerous one.
▪ Space is an extreme example of the need for long-term commitments.
▪ This often implied joint ventures and long-term commitment to projects.
consequence
▪ But the long-term consequences of those decisions, as Britain is starting to discover, can be immense.
▪ The programs with the best results warn students of the long-term consequences of drug use.
▪ If they should start dying, the long-term consequences of the drought could be catastrophic.
▪ But those who dismiss monogamy as a strategy fail to consider the long-term consequences of maintaining a culture of promiscuity.
▪ Many victims also suffer the long-term consequences of smoking and alcohol.
▪ Their feelings get hurt; they blame the other person and react without considering the long-term consequences.
▪ A full consideration of long-term consequences must guide our decisions in future.
▪ Decisions of this nature often have long-term consequences. 4.
contract
▪ Incomes policies eroded differentials, and trade union action was limited by long-term contracts.
▪ Star players like Johnny Damon are traded because they refuse to sign long-term contracts.
▪ This chapter will discuss the main long-term contracts which a potential recording artist is likely to sign.
▪ Many trade union leaderships had become enmeshed in participation in incomes policies and arrangements for long-term contracts.
▪ Occasionally long-term contracts have been used, but recent experience has shown them to be uncertain, given the volatility of currencies.
▪ All of our artists are on long-term contracts.
▪ Code language for a prominent leader bringing a business through a difficult period and offering a better long-term contract to employees.
▪ They also both had long-term contracts to play Downton equipment worldwide.
damage
▪ This can have devastating consequences, and may cause long-term damage to the urinary tract.
▪ Heating oil is highly toxic in the short term, but it evaporates quickly, reducing the long-term damage.
▪ Indeed it is so severe that the fabric of the economy is beginning to suffer long-term damage.
▪ Agriculture accounts for 50% of the long-term damage inflicted on these areas.
▪ And nomatterhow fit you are, you're just as susceptible to the same long-term damage as the average couch potato.
▪ However, the substances themselves only rarely cause long-term damage to the body.
debt
▪ The world's economic downturn has triggered a rash of defaults in commercial paper and long-term debt, particularly by unrated issuers.
▪ My father knew that the coming revolution would settle his class's long-term debt to the peasantry.
▪ One is to make maximum use of long-term debt, soas to avoid loan repayments before the project's completion.
▪ This section lists long-term debt owed to banks or other creditors and any obligations under capital leases.
▪ Net proceeds will be used to repay short and long-term debt, refinance long term debt and for working capital.
▪ Detailed information relative to the specific characteristics of the long-term debt is disclosed in the footnotes to the financial statements.
▪ The company is reasonably profitable and it has very little long-term debt.
▪ The additional interest charged on long-term debt is a premium for lack of liquidity.
decline
▪ Prisons offer hundreds of new jobs and an influx of capital to areas faced with stagnation and long-term decline.
▪ There has been no long-term decline in precipitation in the Himalaya.
▪ However the long-term decline of the West Coast main line was not a prospect that InterCity was prepared to accept.
▪ It too has suffered a long-term decline in the manufacturing industry combined with an accelerating boom in the service sector.
▪ Firstly we called for a major and sustained programme of development within West Belfast in order to reverse the history of long-term decline.
▪ Yet Labour still operated against a background of long-term decline.
▪ In the 1920s the basic industries of coal, textiles and heavy engineering went into long-term decline.
▪ But off-course betting is in long-term decline.
development
▪ The impact on the long-term development of the world economy seems likely to be depressing.
▪ What are the long-term developments that contribute to an event rather than cause it? 3.
▪ Ross ever. the principle of nuclear engines was successfully tested and they remain good candidates for long-term development in interplanetary spacecraft.
▪ Drastic changes, up or down, hamper longer-term development and can mean re-drafting the national budget at short notice.
▪ The relationship between agency and client demands loyalty and long-term development.
▪ I thought that was important for the long-term development of a band.
▪ Mere survival apart, some artists need to finance projects which will help the long-term development of their work.
effect
▪ At four months old, he is apparently developing well, though I am still extremely worried about the possible long-term effects.
▪ A follow-up study that looks at the long-term effects of transcendental meditation and muscle relaxation is expected to be completed in August.
▪ I was interviewed recently and I mentioned the long-term effects of being asked about drugs in interviews.
▪ Exposure to any of those poses risks, although the amounts involved and the long-term effects are still not clearly defined.
▪ She agreed, though, that any chronic long-term effects of exposure to Galecron would not be picked up.
▪ The net long-term effects may vary among the different programs, however.
▪ But the long-term effect is that the economy at home will take off like a rocket in mid-1993.
▪ Never mind that its long-term effects, if any, are unknown.
future
▪ This means that fishing quotas are likely to fall in coming years in order to preserve the long-term future of the fisheries.
▪ Since firms need to make profits in market economies, these projects have no long-term future.
▪ In these circumstances the long-term future for mental health services in inner London was not good.
▪ But what about the long-term future?
▪ Is not that the best investment that we can make in the long-term future for that troubled area?
▪ That is the only long-term future for the coal industry.
▪ Innovation and expansion have continued apace as manufacturers have no misgivings about the long-term future for clay roofing tiles.
goal
▪ It was the stage at which the 12 member states did a good deal more to clarify their long-term goals.
▪ If both core beliefs and the actions they inspire are healthy, the organization will ultimately succeed in achieving its long-term goals.
▪ Most can for simplicity sake be loosely classified as one of three types: fantasy goals, long-term goals and short-term goals.
▪ That goal soon becomes many short-term and long-term goals.
▪ As a long-term goal, she should be prepared for his discharge or possible death.
▪ The long-term goal is to help your son or daughter enjoy mastering his or her own body.
▪ With your long-term goal in mind, select a race on a date that allows you time to prepare thoroughly.
▪ That night, together as a family, we wrote down a long-term goal that changed our lives.
growth
▪ A long-term growth pattern is displayed.
▪ Company executives grumble that analysts are obsessed with short-term performance at the expense of long-term growth and profitability.
▪ Risk of change in the expected rate of long-term growth of the economy.
▪ For as we have already seen, the long-term growth rate of the United States has historically been well over 3 percent.
▪ When spending power goes up relatively quickly the long-term growth in property crime slows down.
▪ What is the likely impact of this shift on the long-term growth and profitability of the company? 4.
▪ But the crisis follows long-term growth.
▪ Gilroy is optimistic about long-term growth.
health
▪ Are the long-term health risks of playing through injury explained to, and understood by, players?
▪ It encourages discussion of important topics that are vital to the long-term health of our society.
▪ Yet without fairly radical surgery, the long-term health of the company might have been in jeopardy.
▪ Therefore, a continuous supply of newly fallen ancients is needed to maintain the long-term health and balanced composition of the forest.
▪ A typical example of such a long-term health problem is arthritis.
▪ The long-term health effects are not known.
▪ But the mechanism's long-term health remains in doubt.
▪ Such responses, even the tears, are positive and beneficial for one's long-term health.
impact
▪ Despite the Gulfs long history of oil pollution, little research has been done on the long-term impact on marine life there.
▪ The long-term impact of such an approach can only be to reduce our competitiveness and erode our economic position.
▪ This investigation indicates the long-term impact of indigenous farming systems on a tropical lake.
▪ The long-term impact of the crisis will likely be determined by the outcome of the hostage crisis.
▪ Based on actuarial calculations, such a step would not have a long-term impact on the provision for pensions, they claimed.
▪ The long-term impact would no doubt be greater.
▪ Perhaps one day an inspired current-affairs teacher will ask them about the long-term impact of the 1988 Education Act.
▪ The Precautionary Principle suggests that we should do more to understand the long-term impacts before proceeding.
interest
▪ As a result of these expectations, funds flow from short-term markets to long-term markets, thereby driving down long-term interest rates.
▪ Mr Ricchiuto predicts long-term interest rates will rise through the 7 % level this year.
▪ And they have a long-term interest in maintaining industry's prosperity, for that is what pays their pensions.
▪ They also expect long-term interest rates to fall further, which could bring mortgage rates below their current 7 percent level.
▪ If the rise in long-term interest rates threatens economic recovery, then so does the sharp rally in the yen.
▪ But Friday, long-term interest rates fell as investors focused primarily on the good inflation news.
▪ Our objectives are to secure the long-term interests of the fishing industry by ensuring effective measures to secure stocks.
▪ By that time, short-term interest rates had fallen below long-term interest rates.
investment
▪ The stock market is, by its very nature, a long-term investment.
▪ Anyone with a stereo, home theater or computer should consider protecting that long-term investment with the O2 Blocker pads.
▪ Short-term liquid assets are held for active trading purposes and for buying long-term investments.
▪ Capital is making a very long-term investment in this area.
▪ We feel that this may skew any long-term investment planning for sport.
▪ The failure to index depreciation schedules for inflation is devastating for manufacturing and other industries that require long-term investments.
▪ Education is a long-term investment - and all the more crucial for being so.
▪ The Military Assistance Program of 1949 was, obviously, only a small down payment on a large long-term investment.
loan
▪ National development organizations and regional or international agencies sometimes offer long-term loans for certain classes of projects at low rates of interest.
▪ The most obvious source of financing would be a long-term loan, with principal repayments beginning in 2002.
▪ The application manages financial instruments, including treasury bills, short-, medium- and long-term loans and interest rate hedges.
▪ Consequently, a nominal 60-year loan would in practice be made up of many short-, medium-, and long-term loans.
▪ The World Bank provides long-term loans although at a market-related interest rate.
▪ Most countries seek to preserve their international credit rating, as long-term loans are required to finance economic development.
▪ We have been promised a grant of £1,000 from the Village Association, and a further long-term loan from them of £1,000.
memory
▪ It is suggested that the answer to ties comes straight from long-term memory.
▪ They have major problems in forming new memories, as well as some difficulty with retrieving previously formed long-term memories.
▪ Correspondingly acquisition is different from storage in that the latter implies a formal recording possibly in short-term or possibly in long-term memory.
▪ A parallel but not identical distinction is between short-term and long-term memory.
▪ Thus they have been re-encoded into long-term memory and this gives rise to the primacy effect.
▪ It will include reasoning or thinking and might make considerable use of long-term memory or experience.
▪ Most people's long-term memory is very limited when it comes to remembering specific points or ideas.
objective
▪ This is presumably not Clinton's intention, but illustrates short-term advantages taking precedence over long-term objectives.
▪ Fallen beyond the banana-now time horizon, long-term objectives are forgotten.
▪ This has both a short-term and a long-term objective.
▪ That is not to stay that long-term objectives should not be considered in addition to the escape strategy that is being worked upon.
▪ It is simply that long-term objectives do not constitute an escape strategy.
▪ And last year I couldn't say well this is my long-term objective.
▪ He gave few signs that radical social reform was his long-term objective.
plan
▪ They have realised the effectiveness of the step-by-step approach, the moderate image and the long-term plan.
▪ Honda may get some small short-term positive publicity from its largesse, but that alone would hardly account for such long-term plans.
▪ But while recommending such long-term plans, I must stress the need for flexibility.
▪ A decision on whether to fund the project will be made next spring, as commissioners revise long-term plans.
▪ Keep the balance; realize that relaxation is an essential part of your long-term plan.
▪ She also suggested that the city develop a long-term plan for rebuilding after a disaster.
▪ Mackintosh also has long-term plans to extend move into furniture design and manufacture.
▪ Despite having over a year left on his contract, McHale told Foreman that he did not figure in his long-term plans.
problem
▪ Hence it was reluctant to take the unpopular measures deemed by some to be necessary to tackle Britain's long-term problems.
▪ In most instances work inhibition is a long-term problem that parents have been trying to solve for years.
▪ It should be stressed that this complication is rare, and only a minority of cases go on to develop long-term problems.
▪ The main body of the plume registers over 100 parts per billion, high enough to cause long-term problems.
▪ The overload of urgent daily business constantly distracts teachers in their attempts to step back to examine underlying causes and long-term problems.
▪ In either case, subsidy will create more long-term problems than it can solve.
▪ This had been the whole crux of Myra's long-term problem.
▪ By 1987 there were clearly long-term problems emerging for the balance of payments.
project
▪ So we have the financial security to meet our greatest challenge - developing long-term projects.
▪ Management needs to ensure that the expensive and long-term project has a good strategic pay-off.
▪ Relief schemes lead on to long-term projects, helping people to help themselves.
▪ Other sponsorships could be for travel or study overseas or for specific research or a long-term project.
rate
▪ But as the number of machines in an economy is increased, so the long-term rate of profit is reduced.
▪ Exhibit 9. 1 shows the so-called normal yield curve, where long-term rates are higher than short-term rates.
▪ It is not an acceptable long-term rate, because of the damage it does to industry and homeowners.
▪ In this case, short-term rates are higher than long-term rates.
▪ A humped yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term interest rates to rise and long-term rates to fall.
▪ And if history is any guide, there is a better chance of long-term rates rising than falling by year-end 1996.
▪ Such a rise in long-term rates sits oddly with still-scanty evidence of economic recovery.
▪ Hence, long-term rates would be lower than short-term rates and the yield curve would be negative.
relationship
▪ Loyal workers build long-term relationships with their customers.
▪ People involved in any long-term relationship generally need some form of contract.
▪ I also have a seven-year-old daughter from a previous long-term relationship.
▪ Sandra joined the Nicholson crowd in the B-movie circle and was to become something of a model for future long-term relationships.
▪ The opportunities for close, long-term relationships are greater than is usually the case in a large, metropolitan, residential area.
▪ She was tall, dark-haired and strong-willed, characteristics which were largely repeated in all of Jack's long-term relationships.
▪ By sharing the benefits and improvements openly with customers they hope to build the mutually beneficial long-term relationship which is their objective.
▪ They all but destroyed the crucial long-term relationship between writer and editor.
security
▪ The mining industry knows that its long-term security comes only from selling its product to customers at prices they can afford.
▪ The point is that the threat of take-overs reduces the long-term security of employees and managers.
solution
▪ He said that the deportations could jeopardise international negotiations aimed at finding a long-term solution to the boat people problem.
▪ Tulsa, however, has yet to devise a long-term solution to financing Career Partners Inc.
▪ But it hardly offers a long-term solution to the problem of resource depletion.
▪ But the only long-term solution is to rebuild your career and your life around strategies that work in a dejobbed environment.
▪ Projects which tackle medical problems at their root and provide long-term solutions.
▪ Griffen has promised a long-term solution that will reduce the presence of cars.
▪ A long-term solution may be a radical reform of the Press Complaints Commission aimed at getting more informative, balanced reporting.
▪ The long-term solution is to find alternative coolants, but that is proving difficult.
strategy
▪ Michele Hanson examines the problems imposed by budget cuts and staff shortages, and looks at the need for long-term strategies.
▪ I am optimistic, therefore, that they can serve as the basis for an effective Mega long-term strategy.
▪ It is continuous, since it is a long-term strategy to enhance individual performance in the context of institutional objectives.
▪ The central purpose is to hammer out long-term strategies for the nation as a whole.
▪ Laing has never had any problems about getting to grips with long-term strategy.
▪ The long-term strategy to combat knife crimes through schemes like Operation Blade is to achieve a change in the law.
▪ In order to tackle the problem let us think of short-term and long-term strategy.
study
▪ This example illustrates wonderfully how important long-term studies are - and how risky science can be!
success
▪ This strategy may have the greatest potential for long-term success if the shoals can be navigated with success.
▪ The advantages of long-term success versus short-term failure must be considered.
▪ Government can not be indifferent to the long-term success of business.
▪ This is both a blessing and a curse when it comes to cultivating long-term success.
▪ Scepticism apart, much more important to Quorn's long-term success has to be its price.
▪ Where ownership is not committed to long-term success, the prognosis for ongoing performance improvement is poor.
▪ To say that long-term success depends on more structural reform and more austerity is not a comfortable political message.
▪ Their interest, therefore, relies on long-term investments for long-term success, just as industry does.
survival
▪ The number of interbreeding populations is unknown, as are chances for long-term survival.
▪ It is not possible though to find similar priorities for long-term survival where small firms are concerned.
▪ When dissatisfaction identifies itself in the form of a complaint, this necessary condition for long-term survival is clearly not being met.
▪ Their long-term survival is seriously in jeopardy, not from felling for timber or further agricultural clearance, but from livestock grazing.
▪ The study's design provided the opportunity to examine the predictors of long-term survival after an acute episode of pneumonia.
trend
▪ First there is a long-term trend caused by fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field strength.
▪ Certainly the recent waves of restructuring have speeded up the decline, but this is a long-term trend.
▪ Even analysts who have been busily downgrading tech stocks tend to characterize the rout as a correction, not a long-term trend.
▪ His world was one of party politics and current events, rather than long-term trends.
▪ The point is only that there are long-term trends and patterns in crime, violence, and disorder.
▪ Although the long-term trend is towards greater equality, most wealth still remains concentrated in the hands of a small minority.
▪ That record also shows clear long-term trends, as well as fluctuations in rainfall and temperature.
unemployment
▪ Our aim is to prevent long-term unemployment, rather than just trying to cope with it after it has occurred.
▪ Its rate of long-term unemployment now is much higher than in the United States.
▪ Mr Milburn said the new statistics also revealed a disturbing trend towards long-term unemployment.
▪ I asked Barry why he felt it important to mention his long-term unemployment in this article about leisure.
▪ They illustrate that, at a time when long-term unemployment is spiralling, it does not pay to make mistakes.
▪ The second problem is the prejudice which redundancy and long-term unemployment may create in the mind of the interviewer.
▪ Since October, long-term unemployment among 18 to 24-year-olds rose by 14,100 to 209,600, the highest level since October 1987.
▪ It has high unemployment and considerable long-term unemployment.
use
▪ The side effects of the long-term use of caffeine are mild but extensive.
▪ Operating leases are more in the nature of true rentals than a means to finance the long-term use of an asset.
▪ Few doctors would recommend such long-term use.
▪ With long-term use dependence and withdrawal effects can become major disadvantages.
▪ Sufficient data on safety and efficacy of long-term use of Ritalin in children are not yet available.
▪ The California researchers have been concerned about long-term use of the cholesterol-lowering drugs for several years.
▪ Sleeping specialists believe that long-term use of sleeping pills should be restricted to a fairly small group of patients.
▪ There are suggestions that with long-term use, fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine can cause subtle brain damage.
view
▪ Moreover the long-term view demands that Vaughan should be battle-hardened soon.
▪ In energy the long-term view must be taken.
▪ They will also need to take the same long-term view.
▪ He has very long-term views, Machiavellian almost.
▪ Not many people have that kind of money, so it is important to take a long-term view of saving.
▪ We have to take the long-term view on a market which will be important by the end of the decade.
▪ It is the responsibility and duty of investors and businesses to take a long-term view and they increasingly do so.
▪ The second is that their long-term view may be clouded by immediate short-term factors.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ long-term investments
▪ People need to think long-term.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any patient who has vascular disease should be on long-term aspirin.
▪ But my strategy was to keep in mind the long-term situation ....
▪ But there is no evidence that they either intended or effected systematic and long-term destruction.
▪ Further long-term savings are anticipated from the reforms.
▪ Term Structure of Interest Rates Effective management of financing sources requires an understanding of the relationship between short-term and long-term interest rates.
▪ This caution obviously arises from the need to minimize the risk of long-term side-effects caused by seemingly innocent new substances.
▪ This chapter will discuss the main long-term contracts which a potential recording artist is likely to sign.
▪ This means that fishing quotas are likely to fall in coming years in order to preserve the long-term future of the fisheries.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
long-term
long-term \long-term\ adj. same as long-run; as, the long-term consequences.
Syn: long-run.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
long-term
a. Becoming evident after a relatively long time period.
WordNet
long-term
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-run, semipermanent]
Usage examples of "long-term".
Solving problems is usually a short term thing, but achieving national progress requires taking a long-term, goal-oriented approach.
Changes had taken place in Argentil, particularly an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor, but those could be the result of natural long-term climatic changes.
That not only did people dream in cold sleep, they needed to dream, for long-term psychological health, and so biofeedback regulators were used to release serotonin into the bloodstream, and trigger REM sleep.
The year after that, a surprisingly responsible bipartisan commission chaired by a younger, wiser Alan Greenspan recommended a body of major reforms that preserved the basic structure of the program and ensured its long-term viability.
But after the actions of Jim Bolder the Qax judged that even a small group of humans represented a risk to the long-term survival of the Qax.
Soon other deadheads were having their long-term memories coming back to them.
Rose, S P R, and Jork, R Long-term memory formation in chick is blocked by 2-deoxygalactose, a fucose analogue.
Without long-term studies of its effects on real people, Huevos Verdes had no more chance of marketing Case 1892-A than of marketing powdered unicorn horn.
Following Ebbinghaus and some of the deductions from diseases of memory, it seemed as if one could align memory along a temporal dimension, in which, in the periods of seconds to minutes to hours following some new experience, processes of perceptual filtering introduced items into a labile, transient short-term memory and from there into a permanent long-term memory.
He believed, and I do too, that as you become more orgasmic, it is natural to seek pleasure in the context of a long-term, loving relationship.
Shortly after our opening, Pidgeon signed a long-term movie contract with M-G-M, which was his new start in pictures, the beginning of his rise to stardom.
Ott, J and Matthies, H-J Some effects of RNA precursors on development and maintenance of long-term memory: hippocampal and cortical pre- and posttraining application of RNA precursors.
Regular visits by the Vienna Rezident, a long-term strictly professional arrangement.
Her cousin Cady could discuss the rinceau motifs used in the decoration of sixteenth-century majolica dishes for hours on end, but Sylvia could design long-term corporate strategy.
Russian armies a British and presently American air force must be viewed as a long-term policy in our co-operation with Russia and for the defence of the Persian oilfields.