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long run, ˈlong-run, n. and a.
(Also Sc. lang run, langrin.)
A. n.
1. Phr. in the long run, in earliest use † at (the) long run, occas. † on, † upon the long run: in the end; when things have run their full course; as the ultimate outcome of a series of vicissitudes. (Cf. F. à la longue.) In the Sc. examples: At last, at the end.
1627J. Carter Plain Expos. 117 (F. Hall) At the long run. 1656Cromwell Speech 17 Sept., They [the discontented] must end at the interest of the Cavalier at the long run. 1669R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 459 At long run he will make his fortune. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 1 (1713) I. 4 There is neither Honour nor Estate to be got by Rebellion at the long run. 1722Ramsay Three Bonnets iii. 31 At langrun Bawsy raik'd his een. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. I. ii. xxviii. 205 Prudence and steddiness will always succeed in the long run better than folly and inconsiderateness. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 18 July i, Humphry is certainly the north star to which the needle of her affection would have pointed at the long run. 1804M. Edgeworth Contrast ix, At the long run, these fellows never thrive. 1806Jamieson's Pop. Ball. I. 295 At langrin, wi' waxin and fleechin',..She knit up her thrum to his wab. a1814Manœuvring ii. i. in New Brit. Theatre II. 89 That is but a bad way on the long run. 1818Colebrooke Import Colon. Corn 101 Upon the long run, a mean value is received for the average of crops. 1824Bentham Bk. Fallacies Wks. 1843 II. 426 To labour at the long-run under an imputation that is not just. 1842Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 156 Compromises never are found to answer, I think, in the long run. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. vii, He'll find it all right in the long-run. 1898L. Stephen Stud. Biogr. I. v. 178 To speak freely and openly is no doubt the best rule in the long-run.
2. Theatr. A long period of being presented on the stage; a play or entertainment presented for a long period. Also attrib.
1714[see run n.1 18]. 1883D. Cook On Stage I. ix. 203 These are the days of ‘long runs’, when but one or two plays can be produced in a season. 1896[see run n.1 18]. 1901Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) I. 320 The long⁓run system is often deplored on the ground that the mimes ‘walk through’ their parts. 1909Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 2/3 Half the week is to be given to ‘long-run’ plays; the other half to new plays, revivals, and the classical drama. 1967Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 3) 195/2 Alfred Butt presented Laurette Taylor in Peg o' My Heart. This had a long run and was then transferred to the Globe.
B. adj. Taken or considered in the long run; = long-term a.
1904W. James Meaning of Truth (1909) iii. 89 Abstract truth, truth verified by the long run, and abstract satisfactoriness, long-run satisfactoriness, coincide. 1931A. L. Rowse Politics & Younger Generation 7, I have had in mind the necessity of a long-run view of politics. 1946J. S. Huxley Unesco i. 19 Long-run human progress. 1957K. R. Popper Poverty of Historicism i. i. 6 There is no long-run uniformity in society on which long-term generalizations could be based. 1969D. C. Hague Managerial Econ. ii. iii. 61 With many industrial goods, long-run costs will be constant or falling. 1975Times 6 Jan. 12/6 We need..restraint from business and labour in which their longrun interests are elevated over..shortrun interests.
So † long-running (in sense 1 of the n.).
1528Roy Rede Me (Arb.) 48 Their interrupcion Shall tourne to their destruccion At longe runnynge fynally. 1661Baxter Mor. Prognost. i. xcv. 25 As knowing, that at long-running, its only Truth that will stand upper-most. 1670― Cure Ch. Div. 150 At the long running, the wound will be found to be increased, and the cure the harder because of the delay. |