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单词 long-serving
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long-serving
long-serving adj. that has served in a position for a long time.
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1829 Statesman & Gaz. (Natchez, Mississippi) 15 Aug. Faithful, long serving patriots, who had or ought to have had a freehold estate in the offices they used or abused to their own emolument.
1855 Standard 26 Feb. Were these long-serving, long-suffering, grey-haired able men put on the staff? No; we put a boy there.
1932 V. de Balla New Balance of Power Europe iii. 90 One-third of the troops garrisoned in France are colored and mostly long-serving professionals.
1974 D. R. Watson G. Clemenceau vii. xvii. 344 The British wanted to prohibit conscription, while Foch thought that it was a professional long-serving army that would be a danger to peace.
2005 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 25 Feb. 23/1 Councillors will be paid a salary and long-serving councillors will be given a ‘golden handshake’ of up to £25,000 if they agree to resign before the elections.
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