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Definition of Run for
1. Verb. Extend or continue for a certain period of time. "The film runs 5 hours"
Definition of Run for
1. Verb. To try to obtain political position through the democratic voting process. ¹
2. Verb. (&lit run for) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Run For
Literary usage of Run for
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"He 's been run for a year by Sir Toby Blaze, who would not have taken two hundred
pounds for him, but Sir Toby was a little run out at the elbows, I reckon, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Let tfi, u*t be the weights of main girders per ft. run for a live load /- per ft.
run and spans /j, /* Then Now lei и-/, »i* be the girder weights per ft. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In 1710 the first gold cup said to have been given by the queen, of 60 guineas
value, was run for by six-year-old horses carrying 12 stone each, ..."
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