LONG-TIME


Meaning of LONG-TIME in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

friend

Whatever transpired between the two long-time friends must be really serious.

Roy Barraclough, a long-time friend and colleague, joked with Mr Dawson less than 24 hours before his death.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Encourage long-time employees to take early-retirement.

My husband and I are biologists and long-time farmers in your area.

The general tendency among long-time employees, said the study, is not to think of leaving.

Trading in works of art needs a deep purse and long-time backing.

Windsor played the long-time head of a boys' secondary school swallowed up by a grammar school to form a comprehensive.

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