0 lasting for a long time or made to last longer than necessary:
protracted negotiations
a protracted argument/discussion
1 lasting for a long time, or made to continue longer than necessary:
First, minority governments often emerge in situations in which, after protracted negotiations, attempts to construct a majority coalition have failed.
The extent to which an event elicits distinctive physiological and cognitive responding, the greater the probability that the event will be retained over protracted intervals.
It is also necessary to repeat this process throughout the protracted emergence period.
While this is not a major factor during the acute phase of the disease, it will contribute to the disease process in more protracted cases.
Similarly, regular or irregular past tense morphology on verbs is absent for a long period of time, more protracted even than -s.
In a couple of cases, the protracted period of wear away amounted to the equivalent of freezing the old plan.
We might even expect disagreeing parties to engage in protracted talk about the quality of the merchandise until some common ground or resolution was reached.
The 1851 data have provoked a protracted debate concerning the relationship between churchgoing and urbanisation.
