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View definitions for long term

long term

adjective as in overall

noun as in long run

adjective as in longitudinal

adjective as in overall

noun as in long run

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Diets not only fail to make us thinner, they also fail to make us healthier in the long term.

Last year, it let an unemployment extension for the long-term jobless expire during the holidays.

Recovery from a long-term eating disorder is a bit of a statistical anomaly.

It's probably necessary for success in the long term, but it's far, far, far from sufficient.

It is a horrific and inconvenient truth, but paying ransoms to free hostages invariably worsens the problem in the long-term.

Formerly charters were granted to corporations for a long term of years, or forever.

A great wall runs through the centre, dividing the long-term from the short-term prisoners.

Many a spy of the Kaiser had tried to pry there and had been arrested and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.

Long-term mining and exploitation can't be done by anything but a self-sustaining colony.

For long-term applications, one may wish to dig a hole in the ground to hold the Funnel against strong winds.

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On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to long-term, such as: abiding, continuing, deep-rooted, durable, eternal, and everlasting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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