Definition of long-established in US English:
long-established
adjectivelôNGiˈstabliSHtlɔŋɪˈstæblɪʃt
Having existed or continued for a long time.
long-established industries
a long-established tradition
Example sentencesExamples
- Britain is unusual among European nations in that it still has an aristocracy which holds enormous art collections, which usually hang in the long-established family country house.
- It attracts great international attention, but its ideas add little to long-established left-wing thinking.
- Their target is Chinese culture conceived of as a whole, of which the distinctive and long-established written language is a convenient symbol.
- Higher costs of operation forced many smaller local businesses to either move outside of their long-established sites in central Austin or close down business completely.
- Some of these lesser-known nooks are long-established and respected venues.
- Egypt had a long-established sculptural tradition of blocklike, frontal figures with carefully formulated proportions.
- It hardly needs emphasizing that in Hong Kong, the quintessential open port, such flows of goods and of people were a long-established part of everyday experience by that time.
- He has a long-established reputation as a hard worker.
- Thus, five of the seven new niche-marketing cooperatives deviate from the model used by the long-established cheese-marketing cooperatives.
- This year's finest traditional album, however, comes from a long-established artist who is still in remarkable, even startling form.