running

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

run·ning [running] noun, adjective BrE [ˈrʌnɪŋ] NAmE [ˈrʌnɪŋ]
noun uncountable
1. the action or sport of running
•to go running
•running shoes
2. the activity of managing or operating sth
•the day-to-day running of a business
•the running costs of a car (= for example of fuel, repairs, insurance)
3. -running (in compounds)the activity of bringing sth such as drugs, guns, etc. into a country secretly and illegally
•drug-running

Example Bank:
•The business currently has annual running costs of £400 million.
•The family is no longer involved in the day-to-day running of the business.
•to go running
Idioms: ↑in of the running ▪ ↑make the running ▪ ↑take a running jump
 
adjective
1. used after a number and a noun such as ‘year’ ‘day’ or ‘time’, to say that sth has happened in the same way several times, without a change
• She's won the championship three years running.
• It was the third day running that the train had been late.
•No party has won an election four times running.
2. running water is water that is flowing somewhere or water that is supplied to a building and available to be used through taps/faucets
•I can hear the sound of running water.
•a remote cottage without electricity or running water
3. only before noun lasting a long time; continuous
Syn: ↑ongoing
•For years he had fought a running battle with the authorities over the land.
•a running argument
•His old raincoat became a running joke (= people kept laughing at it).
see also ↑long-running
4. -running (in compounds)running or flowing in the way mentioned
•a fast-running river
•They showed the free-running, slick football that has become their trademark.
more at in running/working order at ↑order _n.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  running(a), operative, functional, working(a), linear, track, run, running play, running game
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  standing(a), passing(a), pass(a)