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longstanding

[ UK /lˈɒŋstændɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɔŋˌstændɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having existed for a long time
    a long-standing friendship
    the longstanding conflict

How To Use longstanding In A Sentence

  • Just remember, training is never a bad idea, and you can use a new hire as an excuse to refresh the skills of longstanding staffers, too.
  • In this piece he pursues a longstanding interest in how art can exist in time and not just occupy space. Times, Sunday Times
  • We reported last night here on several police departments in California that are trying to reverse a longstanding policy preventing police officers and deputy sheriffs from enforcing our national immigration laws.
  • Her interest in Chinese armorial ceramics is longstanding, and is matched by research into the collecting of Chinese art in the West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
  • The negative publicity surrounding OxyContin has aggravated a longstanding problem.
  • It had cost her several longstanding friendships and had alienated co-workers.
  • Endocrinological consultation found longstanding symptoms which indicated hypopituitarism, and blood testing confirmed this.
  • First, of course, we ask for financial support, which underwrites tree planting for forest restoration or supports our longstanding role to interpret science and research for public policy use.
  • Across the country, the center-right Popular Party outpolled the Socialists by some 10 percentage points and took power in the longstanding Socialist strongholds of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha. A Spanish Opportunity
  • France had maintained a longstanding tradition of floral decoration in art and manuscript illumination since the Middle Ages.
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