"long-running" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "longer-running",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "longest-running",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "longer-running",
        "sup": "longest-running"
      },
      "expansion": "long-running (comparative longer-running, superlative longest-running)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The long-running play finally closed on Broadway, just short of setting a record for longest playing.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3",
          "text": "Services on SWR's neighbour Southern were badly disrupted for nearly 40 days in 2016-17 following a long-running dispute involving drivers union ASLEF and the RMT. And it's passengers - the very people the railway is there for - who are caught in the middle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Operating for a relatively extended period of time."
      ],
      "id": "en-long-running-en-adj-BnL9zmrZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "extend",
          "extend"
        ],
        [
          "period",
          "period"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "long-running"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "longer-running",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "longest-running",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "longer-running",
        "sup": "longest-running"
      },
      "expansion": "long-running (comparative longer-running, superlative longest-running)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The long-running play finally closed on Broadway, just short of setting a record for longest playing.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3",
          "text": "Services on SWR's neighbour Southern were badly disrupted for nearly 40 days in 2016-17 following a long-running dispute involving drivers union ASLEF and the RMT. And it's passengers - the very people the railway is there for - who are caught in the middle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Operating for a relatively extended period of time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "extend",
          "extend"
        ],
        [
          "period",
          "period"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "long-running"
}