run-around
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.31 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of runaround.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Use run-arounds to fill the white space around irrigularly shared artwork."
- "They like phone calls but resent telephone run-arounds and response delays."
- "We have big people-carrier, and also a little run-around for popping to the shops."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Deverbal from run around.