0 lasting for a long time or made to last longer than necessary: --
a protracted argument/discussion
protracted negotiations
1 lasting for a long time, or made to continue longer than necessary: --
In shepherding its preferred candidates into premierships, the national party involved itself in protracted negotiations with local and regional elements of the party.
They wore down the army through guerrilla and mobile warfare, the first two phases in a protracted war.
As these middle-aged women frequently had to depend on social assistance for protracted periods, they experienced their situation as shameful and became very depressed.
The subject also inevitably produced caustic and protracted struggle between municipal, state and ecclesiastical authorities for the regulation and control of morals.
Processes such as stretching or extending are temporally protracted and hence correlate with our experience of duration.
With protracted loud playing, therefore, the relationship of input to output is increasingly likely to be stretched in time.
On this account, laws have typically resulted from protracted experimentation by social actors with a view to enhancing the predictability of social intercourse.
The 1851 data have provoked a protracted debate concerning the relationship between churchgoing and urbanisation.
