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Run-up   /rən-əp/   Listen
Run-up

noun
1.
A substantial increase over a relatively short period of time.  Synonym: runup.  "Market runups are followed by corrections"
2.
The approach run during which an athlete gathers speed.





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"Run-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... arresting. What a strange, pale-dark face, with its black, uncovered hair, its straight black brows; what a proud, swan's-eyed, thin-lipped, straight-nosed young devil, marching like a very Highlander; though still rather run-up, from sheer youthfulness! They had come abreast of the car by now, and, leaning out, ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy


Words linked to "Run-up" :   approaching, broad jump, approach, runup, pole jump, increase, pole vault, pole vaulting, pole jumping, long jump, coming, bowling


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