longs

Noun

long (plural longs)

1. A long vowel.
   • In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics, volume 2, page 60
2. A long syllable.
3. A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
4. A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
   • A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
5. An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
   • Every uptick made the longs cheer.

   Synonyms:

   bull

6. A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
   • Likewise, if borrowers prefer to sell short-maturity issues at the time lenders prefer to invest in longs, as is the case when interest rates are expected to fall, longer maturity issues will tend to yield less than shorter maturity issues.1977, Jerome B. Cohen, Edward D. Zinbarg, Arthur Zeikel, Guide to Intelligent Investing, →OCLC, page 203

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