Meaning of run-around | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of runabout.

Examples

“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.”

“We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around.”

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