RUNDOWN Definition & Meaning

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rundown

[ ruhn-doun ]

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noun

a quick review or summary of main points of information, usually oral:
This brief rundown of past events will bring you up to date.
Baseball. a play in which a base runner is caught between bases by two or more players of the opposing team who toss the ball back and forth in an effort to tag the runner out.
Commerce. runoff ( def 4 ).

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Origin of rundown¹

1905–10, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase run down

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Andy Pages was caught stealing to end the sixth inning, getting stuck in a rundown after a premature jump that triggered a pick-off throw from Luzardo.

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The magazine on Wednesday published the entire text thread, which showed the detailed and potentially classified rundown for a March air raids.

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Here we have a rundown of the evening.

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The letter — sent late Saturday and seemingly spearheaded by Musk and his quasi-governmental Department of Government Efficiency operation— asked federal employees to share a rundown of their work in the last week.

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Posts on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok featured black-and-white photos of rundown parts of UK cities, including Norwich, alongside posts from Albanians complaining about life in the UK.

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