( longer-term)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Something that is long-term has continued for a long time or will continue for a long time in the future.
A new training scheme to help the long-term unemployed is expected...
The association believes new technology will provide a long-term solution to credit card fraud.
≠ short-term
ADJ : usu ADJ n
2.
When you talk about what happens in the long term , you are talking about what happens over a long period of time, either in the future or after a particular event.
In the long term the company hopes to open in Moscow and other major cities...
Over the long term, such measures may only make the underlying situation worse.
N-SING : the N