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Meaning of long-standing in English
Examples of long-standing
long-standing
For ornithologists and backyard birders, the studies have the potential to resolve -- or extend -- _long_-standing debates over the feathered dinosaur descendants.
As he examined what he really wanted and valued he recognized his own role in evading _long_-standing conflicts in his marriage.
Is this something that policymakers are comfortable with, given the _long_-standing geopolitical tensions between the two countries?
The dinner, a _long_-standing tradition, has morphed from a relatively low-key gathering of journalists and their sources into a glamorous red-carpet affair.
Destroying it would create "a medical canyon" that separates the hospital from the city and risks deepening _long_-standing wounds in university-resident relations, he said.
That typically means rattling cages and shaking up _long_-standing beliefs and institutions -- which is never easy or universally well-received.
It's a _long_-standing tactic for these big international oil companies.
That social graph is still extraordinarily valuable -- that has the potential to really be _long_-standing.
Industrial production, a _long_-standing drag on the economy, has shown signs of life lately, rising in three of the past four months.
While it might sound like an academic exercise, it's been a _long_-standing goal of the biological community.
I hope we can keep some _long_-standing rivals alive and build some new ones.
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Translations of long-standing
in Chinese (Traditional)
由來已久的，長期存在的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
由来已久的，长期存在的…
in Spanish
antiguo, de largo, antiguo/gua [masculine-feminine…
in Portuguese
de longa data…
in more languages
in Polish
in Turkish
in French
in Norwegian
uzun süre ayakta kalan, eskiden beri süregelen…
lang, lang tids, som har vart lenge…
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