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LONG RUN

Pronunciation (US):

• LONG RUN (noun)
The noun LONG RUN has 1 sense:

1. a period of time sufficient for factors to work themselves out

Familiarity information: LONG RUN used as a noun is very rare.

• LONG RUN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A period of time sufficient for factors to work themselves out

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

long run; long haul

Context examples:

in the long run we will win / in the long run we will all be dead / he performed well over the long haul

Hypernyms ("long run" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

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(English proverb)
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(Arabic proverb)
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(Dutch proverb)

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