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long run is a noun meaning "a period of time sufficient for factors to work themselves out". It carries one recorded sense.
a period of time sufficient for factors to work themselves out
“in the long run we will win”
“in the long run we will all be dead”
“he performed well over the long haul”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for long run come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.