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Idiom in the long term involving a long period of time.Better teacher training will make a big difference to the school in the long term.For the long term, we hope our plans will create a large number of jobs. Related vocabulary: take the long view
in the short/medium/long termDuring a short/medium/long period of time in the future. It's an adequate solution in the short term, maybe even in the medium term, but it won't fix the problem in the long term. in the ˈlong/ˈmedium/ˈshort term used to describe what will happen a long/medium/short time into the future: In the short term, we can send the refugees food and clothing, but in the long term we must do something about the underlying problems. ▶ ˌlong-ˈterm, ˌshort-ˈterm adj.: a long-term approachshort-term problems |