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Verb (1)

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

1. (transitive) To take a long position in.
   • The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.2004, Thomas S. Y. Ho with Sang Bin Lee and Sang-bin Yi, The Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling, page 84

Verb (2)

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

1. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
   • She longed for him to come back.

   Synonyms:

   ache for, yearn

Verb (3)

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

1. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
   • A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long’d to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb (4)

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

1. (obsolete) To belong.
   • Now ſend Ambaſſage to thy neighbor Kinges,
     And let them know the Perſian King is chang’d:
     From one that knew not what a King ſhould doe,
     To one that can commaund what longs there to: […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

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