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English
Alternative forms
Adjective
long-standing (comparative longer-standing or more long-standing, superlative longest-standing or most long-standing)
- Having existed for a long time.
2020 June 17, David Clough, “Then and now: trains through Crewe”, in Rail, page 60:Forty-five years ago, Crewe was witnessing the first year of the revised timetable associated with the 'Electric Scots' services, following inauguration of through London-Glasgow electric running in May 1974. Except for Euston-North Wales traffic, the long-standing practice of motive power changing at Crewe had ended.
- Having been done for long enough time to become convention.
Long-standing custom calls for referring to the town chairman as mayor, even though we don't have a mayor.
Translations
having existed for a long time
- Bulgarian: дългогодишен (bg) (dǎlgogodišen), отдавнашен (bg) (otdavnašen)
- Finnish: pitkäaikainen (fi)
- French: de longue date (fr), ancien (fr)
- German: langjährig (de), langgedient, jahrelang (de), seit langer Zeit bestehend , langbestehend, altgedient (de), alt (de)
- Italian: di vecchia data, di lunga durata, di lunga data
- Latin: inveterātus
- Maori: tūroa, mauki
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: årelang
- Nynorsk: årelang
- Portuguese: de longa data (pt)
- Spanish: de larga data
- Vietnamese: lâu đời (vi)
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having been done for long enough time to become convention
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