as long as

conjunction

1

: provided that

can do as they like as long as they have a B average

2

: inasmuch as, since

as long as you're going, I'll go too

Synonyms

• 'cause
• as
• because
• being (as or as how or that) [chiefly dialect]
• considering
• for
• inasmuch as
• now
• seeing
• since
• whereas

Examples of as long as in a Sentence

as long as I've got my boots on, I might as well go out and get the firewood

Recent Examples on the Web

The study authors found the shark’s genome to be extraordinarily large, twice as long as a human’s and bigger than any other shark genome sequenced to date. —Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024

Consent decrees in other cities have put police departments under federal review for as long as a decade. —Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2024

Cherry has probably been around as long as those original IBM keyboards and the German company still makes excellent keycaps and keyboards that hark back to an age when products were signed off by engineers rather than accountants. —Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024

And Wood said that as long as people eat meat, there will always be a need for leather companies to solve the problem of hide waste. —Jennifer Bringle, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1877, in the meaning defined at sense 1