LONG-TERM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long-term mean? 

• LONG-TERM (adjective)
  The adjective LONG-TERM has 1 sense:

1. relating to or extending over a relatively long time

  Familiarity information: LONG-TERM used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG-TERM (adjective)

Comparative: longer term    / longer-term   
Superlative: longest term    / longest-term   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or extending over a relatively long time

Synonyms:

long-run; long-term; semipermanent

Context example:

a long-term investment

Similar:

long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)

 Context examples 

Asthma is treated with two kinds of medicines: quick-relief medicines to stop asthma symptoms and long-term control medicines to prevent symptoms.

(Asthma, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

People with BPD have problems with relationships, family and work life, long-term planning, and self-identity.

(Borderline personality disorder, NCI Dictionary)

Long-term side effects are an important issue.

(Childhood Brain Tumors, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Chronic lung disease (CLD) is a general term for long-term respiratory problems in premature babies.

(Chronic Lung Disorder, NICHD)

Several monoamine oxidase inhibitors are useful as antidepressants apparently as a long-term consequence of their modulation of catecholamine levels.

(Antidepressant Agent, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Their infants are at greater risk for low birthweight and a range of long-term health problems associated with pre-mature birth.

(Pregnancy hypertension risk increased by traffic-related air pollution, National Institutes of Health)

Studies looking into the long-term health effects of chocolate have relied on people to recall how much chocolate they ate.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

New proteins must be produced to reconsolidate retrieved memories and return them to long-term storage in the brain.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

The assessment considered both short-term and long-term soil effects, such as on nutrients and carbon storage.

(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)

He does not think it necessarily to have the loudspeakers present long-term, though this would have to be tested.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)