in the long run

Meaning

in the long run

(idiomatic) After a very long time; eventually; over a long period of time; more generally.

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Synonyms

lastly in the end eventually finally ultimately sometime at length someday in due course in a nutshell in time in short at last on the whole in due time
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Antonyms

swift asap presto now away soon
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Related terms

long-term short-term

Examples

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. John Maynard Keynes

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. James Russell Lowell

In the long run even a dog will compromise with the cat. Hungarian Proverb

In the long run we are all dead. English Proverb

Words in the phrase

in the long run

Close letter words and terms

in the loading bay in the local market in the long haul in the long term In the Loop in the lump