Meanings
- not comparableLasting for weeks.
Across the West, crops rotted for the second summer in a row this year because of a weekslong shutdown of visa processing for seasonal farm workers caused by State Department computer problems.
2015 September 15, Roberto Suro, “Where to Go for Real Immigration Reform”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Feb 20211 more example
This summer, Yining, a city in the Xinjiang region of far-western China, celebrated a boom of Chinese tourists seeking a sunny respite from Covid worries in their hometowns. Now Yining is under its own grueling, weekslong pandemic lockdown, with residents calling for help over limited food, difficulty getting medicines and drastic shortages of sanitary pads for women.
2022 September 11, Chris Buckley, “Just Bread and Noodles: China’s Covid Lockdown Distress Hits Xinjiang”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2022, ASIA PACIFICSynonyms: multiweek
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveLasting for weeks.
Origin
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weekslong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weekslong
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