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→Verb: # {{cx|transitive|dated|lang=en}} To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on. W1913 |
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#: ''We can't afford for the performance to '''run on''' for more than the specified time.''
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#: ''She '''ran on''' and wouldn't let anyone get a word in edgeways.''
# To [[operate]] with a particular [[energy]] source.
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#* '''2009''', Heidi Mandanis Schooner, Michael W. Taylor, ''Global Bank Regulation: Principles and Policies'' (page 27)
#*: 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.
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