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Definition of "old-standing" [old-standing]

  • Of long continuance; long-standing.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "old-standing" in a sentence
  • "There was a tall, thin, well-dressed old man-Peter estimated eighty or ninety years old-standing at the back of the city room, just inside the sliding doors."
  • "In this manner is accounted for the multiplicity of scars and fistulas seen on the swelling of an old-standing quittor."
  • "There was very old-standing fracture of the pyramidal process (see Fig. 157), with the formation of a false joint between the process and the pedal bone."