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Word: long
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- cricket of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position)
- finance possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or financial instruments with prices positively correlated with them.
- Having great duration.
- Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below.
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Adverb:
- For a long duration.
- For a particular duration.
- Over a great distance in space.
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Noun:
- finance An entity with a long position in an asset.
- linguistics A long vowel.
- programming A long integer variable, twice the size of an int and half of a long long. A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
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Proper noun:
- from=Middle English Originally a nickname for a tall man.
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Verb:
- intransitive To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
- finance To take a long position in.
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