Usually means: Extended over a long period.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word long-drawn:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. long-drawn: Merriam-Webster
  2. long-drawn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. long-drawn: Wordnik
  4. long-drawn: Wiktionary
  5. Long-drawn, long-drawn: Dictionary.com
  6. Long-drawn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. long-drawn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Long-drawn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. long-drawn: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Long-drawn: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (long-drawn)

▸ adjective:  long-drawn-out

Similar:
long-drawn-out, drawn-out, dreich, lengthy, drawn out, overprotracted, long-pending, longspun, longsome, protracted, more...

Opposite:
concise, brief, succinct, terse, pithy

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Similar:
long-drawn-out, drawn-out, dreich, lengthy, drawn out, overprotracted, long-pending, longspun, longsome, protracted, more...

Opposite:
concise, brief, succinct, terse, pithy



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