Usually means: Existing or continuing for long.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word long-standing:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. long-standing: Merriam-Webster
  2. long-standing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. long-standing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. long-standing, long-standing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Long-Standing, Long-standing, long-standing: Wordnik
  6. long-standing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. long-standing: Wiktionary
  8. long-standing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. long-standing: Dictionary.com
  10. long-standing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. long-standing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. long-standing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. long-standing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. long-standing: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Having existed for a long time.
▸ adjective:  Having been done for long enough time to become convention.

Similar:
longtime, long-pending, long-ranging, long-term, protracted, yearslong, deep-set, long, longevous, long-drawn-out, more...

Opposite:
recent, new, fresh, novel, modern

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    rust,     sepia,     ochre,     umber,     sienna, more...

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Similar:
longtime, long-pending, long-ranging, long-term, protracted, yearslong, deep-set, long, longevous, long-drawn-out, more...

Opposite:
recent, new, fresh, novel, modern

Colors:
    rust,     sepia,     ochre,     umber,     sienna, more...



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