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• run-out
  run-out

  noun

  the act of evading a jump or jumping outside of the limiting markers.
• run out
  run out

  verb

  to exhaust (a supply of something) or (of a supply) to become exhausted

run-out

American  

[ruhn-out] / ˈrʌnˌaʊt /

noun

Manège.

1. the act of evading a jump or jumping outside of the limiting markers.

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run out British  

verb

1. to exhaust (a supply of something) or (of a supply) to become exhausted

2. (intr) to expire; become no longer valid

   my passport has run out

3. informal to desert or abandon

4. (tr) cricket to dismiss (a running batsman) by breaking the wicket with the ball, or with the ball in the hand, while he is out of his ground

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noun

1. cricket dismissal of a batsman by running him out

2. mechanical engineering an imperfection of a rotating component so that not all parts revolve about their intended axes relative to each other

run out Idioms  

1. Become used up or exhausted, as in Our supplies have run out . [Late 1600s]

2. Compel to leave; see run off , def. 5.

3. Become void, expire, as in Our renter's insurance ran out last month . [c. 1300] Also see run out of ; run out on .

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Etymology

Origin of run-out

First recorded in 1865–70; noun use of verb phrase run out

Example Sentences

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run-out run out

There was tetchiness and a few cross words as India dropped three catches - Abhishek Sharma guilty of one particularly poor fumble - and a missed run-out chance.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

Kusal Mendis looked fluent during his 26, using his feet well against spin, but threw his wicket away with a run-out.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

He was involved in the run-out of skipper Michael Bracewell, who made 16 and departed after a direct throw from Shreyas Iyer.

From Barron's ● Jan. 11, 2026

Now we're doing that same run-out but for 50 times more money.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

I get really thirsty when I’m nervous, and I’d drunk the bulk of a two-liter Coke before the run-out.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

"If we have a really sharp cold spell, then there is conceivably the possibility that we'll run out of gas and have to switch industry off... our storage is not full," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Crusoe expects a majority of its cloud inference computing to run out of the smaller data centers it is manufacturing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

He had the type of ending every quarterback savors: three consecutive kneeldowns to run out the clock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Millions of people open Wordle each day hoping to solve its five-letter puzzle before their six guesses run out.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Probably more than we’ll need,” Dad had said, “but the worst thing that could happen would be to run out of water.”

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

Related Words

• depart
• exhaust
• expire
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