From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlong-awaitedˌlong-aˈwaited, long awaited adjective [only before noun] EXPECTa long-awaited event, moment etc is one that you have been waiting a long time for the long-awaited news of his release from prison
Examples from the Corpus
long-awaited• And hopes weakened of a long-awaited cut in interest rates which would give a real boost to the Government's election prospects.• The court's long-awaited decision was unpopular with groups on both sides of the issue.• Across the country, anxious United Nations workers awoke to the thought that the long-awaited Khmer Rouge offensive had started.• Britain had at last experienced the long-awaited, long-delayed bourgeois revolution.• The next morning we received the long-awaited order to attack.• Band members were celebrating the long-awaited release of their first album.• The advisory council goes out of business now, having delivered its long-awaited report.• The election, locals said, hinged on discontent among some parents with the pace of long-awaited school repairs.• the long-awaited sequel to her first novel• In the summer of 1780 came the long-awaited summons.• The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year, but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993.• It is hoped that these measures will trigger the long-awaited upturn in the economy. 