Long-running
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Long-running is an adjective meaning Operating for a relatively extended period of time.
Meaning
Operating for a relatively extended period of time.
Example Sentences
The long-running play finally closed on Broadway, just short of setting a record for longest playing.
It’s one of the world’s longest-running experiments, having already gone on for 142 years. And the botanists in East Lansing hope that it will last for at least another 80.
Services on SWR's neighbour Southern were badly disrupted for nearly 40 days in 2016-17 following a long-running dispute involving drivers union ASLEF and the RMT. And it's passengers - the very people the railway is there for - who are caught in the middle.
Word Forms
- longer-running
- longest-running
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include long-standing, long-established, longtime, long-term, long-lived, long-life.
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