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Loading the player... A long-term investment is an account on the asset side of a company's balance sheet that represents the company's investments, including stocks, bonds, real estate and cash, that it intends to hold for more than a year.
Definition of 'medium-term'. medium-term. The medium-term is the period of time which lasts a few months or years beyond the present time, in contrast with the short term or the long term. The medium-term economic prospects remained poor. If a woman gives up her job to look after her baby, she will risk losing her salary in the medium-term and may seriously damage her long-term career prospects.