long-established
English
Alternative forms
- long established
Adjective
long-established (comparative more long-established or longer-established, superlative most long-established or longest-established)
- That has been in existence for a long time.
- Synonym: well-established
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations:
- First, the employments must be well known and long established in the neighbourhood ;
- 1870, George Herbert, “The Primitive Church—Where to Find it”, in The Church. Sermons Preached on Sunday Afternoons in the Cathedral of Limerick, page 116:
- The age in which we live is remarkable for searching out, and sifting to the bottom, the most long-established opinions which have come down to us.
- 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 102:
- Some long-established trains have disappeared from the new timetables, including the through trains between Birkenhead and Margate, and York and Bournemouth. These will be restored in May, [...].
- 1995, Jeremy Waddington, The Politics of Bargaining:
- During Wave I formations tended to merge with their contemporaries, whereas during Wave II acquisition by longer-established unions was the predominant pattern.