LONG-TERM


Meaning of LONG-TERM in English

(longer-term)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

Something that is ~ has continued for a long time or will continue for a long time in the future.

A new training scheme to help the ~ unemployed is expected...

The association believes new technology will provide a ~ 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

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