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She credited the investigation's success to what she described as a long-standing practice of cooperation among state and local law enforcement agencies.

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  1. adjective Extending or traveling a relatively great distance.
  2. adjective Having relatively great height; tall.
  3. adjective Having the greater length of two or the greatest length of several: the long edge of the door.
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  • And while holding a grudge this long was a bit silly, he couldn't deny she'd had reason to develop that grudge in the first place; he'd never been completely comfortable with the assignment himself. —  Chapter1
  • To have maintained this degree of quality for this long is amazing to me in this age of short-term profits and ephemeral styles. —  Asimov'sSF,August2006
  • She said she was relieved to return home to her children after what she described as a long day. —  Brownsville Herald :
  • Wachovia long has been the top bank in market share in the Raleigh-Durham market. —  Raleigh Business News - Local Raleigh News | The Triangle Business Journal
  • She credited the investigation's success to what she described as a long-standing practice of cooperation among state and local law enforcement agencies. —  theithacajournal.com -
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English lang; see del-1 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English longen, from Old English langian; see del-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Scots lang; from Middle English long, lang, from Anglo-Saxon lang, long = Old Saxon lang, long = OFries. lang, long = Middle Dutch, Dutch lang = Middle Low German Low German Old High German lang, Middle High German lanc, German lang = Icelandic langr = Danish lang = Swedish lång = Gothic (Moesogothic) laggs, long, = Latin longus (later Italian lungo = Portuguese longo = Provencal long, lone, loing = French long), long; perhaps = OPers. drānga, long, the d being in this case lost, and the r changed to l, in L., etc. The L. word is not the source of the Teutonic, but merely cognate. From the Anglo-Saxon word are ult. English long, along, along, belong, ling, linger, length, etc.; from the L. are ult. English elongate, longitude, longevity, oblong, prolong, eloin, eloign, purloin, lunge, etc.
  2. from Middle English longe, from Anglo-Saxon lange (= German lang), for a long time, far, from lang, long: see long, a.
  3. from Middle English longen, longien, langien, from Anglo-Saxon langian = Old Saxon langōn = Dutch langen = Old High German langēn, Middle High German langen, in comp. belangen, rarely verlangen, G. only verlangen, long, crave: usually derived from lang, English long, a., and explained by identifying the verb with Anglo-Saxon langian, become long, as ‘to stretch the mind after.’ But the verb may be of different origin, perhaps a secondary form connected with Old High German gilingen (preterit gilang), Middle High German G. gelingen, strive after, attain.
  4. By apheresis from along.
  5. from Middle English longen, langen, equivalent to belongen, belong: see belong.
 

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