(psychology) The stage of the Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model where informative knowledge is held indefinitely.

(psychology) The capacity for holding, but not manipulating, a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

In receipt of benefits or allowances for sickness, disability or incapacity for a long period of time, see on the sick

Synonym of long Covid

Alternative form of midterm break

(Oxbridge slang) Contraction of Long Vacation term.

(law) A feature of the copyright law of some countries, whereby the duration of protection granted by the country in question to a work created in a foreign country is limited to no greater than that which it would have received in its country of origin, even if it would have been eligible for a greater duration had it been created in the country in question; the rule that, when a copyrighted work passes into the public domain in its country of origin, it will also pass into the public domain in the country in question if it has not already done so.

(law, England & Wales, formal, historical) An estate in land held for a term of years which determined on the deaths of certain individuals, or the cessation of certain life interests.

(law, England & Wales, formal, misleading) An estate in land held for a term of years of either a specified length or on a periodic basis, and which is not a term of years determinable (though may be determinable for other reasons); a leasehold estate in land.

(Oxbridge) A fourth, supplemental academic term of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge during the long vacation, containing no routine undergraduate teaching.