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Long-run   /lɔŋ-rən/   Listen
Long-run

adjective
1.
Relating to or extending over a relatively long time.  Synonyms: long-term, semipermanent.  "The long-term reconstruction of countries damaged by the war" , "A long-term investment"






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"Long-run" Quotes from Famous Books



... tends steadily downwards, while any article obtained by mining labour, or supplied by nature alone, tends to become more and more costly. The use of any one article of either class as a measure of value tends in the long-run to injustice either towards creditors or debtors. Labour may be considered as the most constant in intrinsic value of all things capable of sale or barter; but the utmost ingenuity of Martial philosophers has failed to devise a fixed standard by which one kind ...
— Across the Zodiac • Percy Greg

... with startling clearness—is that Ireland will be absorbed by France, and will welcome her deliverance from England; that the civil existence of England will be most seriously imperilled; and that the Irish themselves will, in the long-run, suffer grievously ...
— Sydney Smith • George W. E. Russell

... for I am not fond of taking human life. Indeed, I would decline to do so even to save my own, but I should have no objection to maim. Injuries about the legs or feet might do burglars spiritual as well as physical good in the long-run, besides being beneficial ...
— Post Haste • R.M. Ballantyne



Words linked to "Long-run" :   long, long-term



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