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long-term

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long-term (lôngtûrm, lng-)
adj.
Involving, maturing after, or being in effect for a long time: a long-term investment.

long-term
Adjective
lasting or extending over a long time: a long-term commitment
Noun
long term
in the long term over a long period of time: in the long term the cost of energy will have to go up
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Adj.1.long-term - 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"
long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"
Translations
long-term [ˈlɔŋtəːm] adja largo plazo
long-term [ˈlɔŋtəːm] long adjà long terme
long-term [ˈlɔŋtəːm] long adjlangfristig
long-term [ˈlɔŋtəːm] adja lungo termine


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Caverly owned farms in Orange County that had been leased out for long periods (the lives of three persons named at the moment the lease was granted) but which were now about to revert to him--such long-term leases, in the Hudson Valley, led to the so-called anti-rent war that was breaking out at the time Cooper wrote this book; twelve and a half cents = an English shilling, still often used in conversation in America; nabobs = rich men (usually businessmen of recent affluence)}
 
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