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Run on
verb, slang
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Verb
- 1 To continue without interruption idiomatic
"We can't afford for the performance to run on for more than the specified time."
- 2 talk or narrate at length wordnet
- 3 Using a certain time zone.
"I was still running on daylight savings time."
- 4 continue uninterrupted wordnet
- 5 To continue talking for a long time. idiomatic
"She ran on and wouldn't let anyone get a word in edgeways."
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- 6 To operate with a particular energy source.
"This car runs on bio-alcohol."
- 7 To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank.
"Accordingly, depositors may run on a bank upon the receipt of adverse economic news that induces them to revise their assessment of a bank's soundness."
- 8 To carry on or continue (e.g. the type for a new sentence) without making a break or commencing a new paragraph. historical
- 9 To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on. dated, transitive
- 10 To rely on (something) for popular support in an election. transitive
"The senator is running on his record."
- 11 To attempt to enact (a plan, trick or scheme) on (someone). ditransitive, slang
"Don'chu run game on me."
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