• Run-around

    Full definition of run-around

    Noun

    run-around

    (plural run-arounds)
      • 1977 , , The Federal Reporter , The Board points to Driver Supervisor Wade Seal's testimony that a dispatcher was not doing his job right when he deliberately ran around a driver (Tr. 1414(2)) and the portion of Booe's testimony where Booe obviously wished to avoid stating that the company had a policy of permitting deliberate run-arounds.
      • 2013 , A.E. Cawkell , Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Information Technology and Systems , Use run-arounds to fill the white space around irrigularly shared artwork.
      • 2013, Natalie Canavor , Business Writing For Dummies , They like phone calls but resent telephone run-arounds and response delays.
    1. A small car for making short trips.
      • 2010 , Mario Reading - , The Mayan Codex , The car had captured his attention even then, as It had seemed so out of place in a street full of Peugeots, and Renaults, and six-seater Fiat run-arounds.
      • 2014 , Cathy Williams , A Tempestuous Temptation , She followed him to his fancy car, incongruous between the battered, old run-arounds on either side, and made another inarticulate noise as he beeped it open.
      • 2016, Liz Nugent , Lying In Wait , We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around.
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