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long-running

long-running adjective: operating for a relatively extended period of time.

Adjective

long-running (comparative longer-running, superlative longest-running)

  1. Operating for a relatively extended period of time.
    • The long-running play finally closed on Broadway, just short of setting a record for longest playing.
    • 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.2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3

Forms of long-running

comparativelonger-running
superlativelongest-running

Questions about long-running

What does long-running mean?
Long-running means operating for a relatively extended period of time.
What part of speech is long-running?
Long-running is an adjective.

Words near long-running in the dictionary

  1. long-range reconnaissance patrol
  2. long-range reconnaissance patrols
  3. long-ranger
  4. long-rangers
  5. long-ranging
  6. long-running
  7. long-sighted
  8. long-sightedness
  9. long-sleeved
  10. long-sleever
  11. long-sleevers

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