long-running

See also: longrunning

English

Adjective

long-running (comparative longer-running, superlative longest-running)

  1. Operating for a relatively extended period of time.
    The long-running play finally closed on Broadway, just short of setting a record for longest playing.
    • 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3:
      Services on SWR's neighbour Southern were badly disrupted for nearly 40 days in 2016-17 following a long-running dispute involving drivers union ASLEF and the RMT. And it's passengers - the very people the railway is there for - who are caught in the middle.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.