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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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{{head|en|verb|head=[[run]] [[on]]}}
 
# {{contextlabel|idiomatic|lang=en|idiomatic}} To [[continue]] without [[interruption]]
#: ''We can't afford for the performance to '''run on''' for more than the specified time.''
# {{contextlabel|idiomatic|lang=en|idiomatic}} To [[continue]] [[talking]] for a long time.
#: ''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.
# {{cxlb|en|printing|historical|lang=en}} To carry on or continue (e.g. the type for a new sentence) without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.
# {{cxlb|en|transitive|dated|lang=en}} To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on.
 
[[Category:English phrasal verbs]]
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