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Long-run   /lɔŋ-rən/   Listen
adjective
long-run  adj.  
1.
Relating to or extending over a relatively long time; as, the long-run significance of the elections.
Synonyms: long-term.





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"Long-run" Quotes from Famous Books



... embarked on an ambitious reform program that seeks to modernize and reinvigorate the economy by stabilizing prices, deregulating the economy, and opening it to increased foreign competition. A major long-run strength ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... the advice came too late to avert the catastrophe—as on that memorable and dreadful day when Roschen boiled her sausage-dumplings without tying them in a bag—the lessons taught by calamitous experience caused only passing trouble, and tended, in the long-run, ...
— An Idyl Of The East Side - 1891 • Thomas A. Janvier
... used, will be a new era in our Christian literature. They can scarcely fail to intensify the devotion and invigorate the faculties of such as read them. And if these readers be chiefly professed divines, the people will in the long-run reap the benefit. Let taste and scholarship and eloquence by all means do their utmost; but it is little which these can do without materials. The works of Owen are an exhaustless magazine; and, without forgetting the source whence they were ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various
... pollution problems, no definite full technological answers exist at present and the main hope must be to alleviate them as much as possible while pressing a search for long-run answers. Some are relatively restricted in their effects in the Potomac Basin so far, though they have some drastic local effects and some long-run implications. Certain industrial wastes not amenable to any presently known form of treatment, such as tannery discharges at Petersburg, West ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior
... may be right: the Church may be worth a disinterested idolatry: but as a means to teach mankind the lesson of Christ it has rather patently failed to do its business. Men are not fools: or rather they are fools, but not fools enough in the long-run to pay for being taught to be foolish. They pay us ministers of religion, Agatha, a tidy lot of money, if you take all Europe over: and we are not delivering the goods. In their present frame of mind they will soon be discovering that, for any use we are, they had better have saved the cash ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)


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