RUN FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does run for mean? 

• RUN FOR (verb)
  The verb RUN FOR has 1 sense:

1. extend or continue for a certain period of time

  Familiarity information: RUN FOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUN FOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extend or continue for a certain period of time

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

run; run for

Context example:

The film runs 5 hours

Hypernyms (to "run for" is one way to...):

endure; last (persist for a specified period of time)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

"Make a run for it, an' we'll hold 'em back. Now you go! Hit her up!"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Jim,” the doctor interrupted, and his voice was quite changed, “Jim, I can't have this. Whip over, and we'll run for it.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The day is running by more quickly than I ever thought a day could run for me again. It is now three o'clock.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I don’t object to losing my money, but I like to get a run for it anyway.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I wish I was a horse, then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One wolf, long and lean and gray, advanced cautiously, in a friendly manner, and Buck recognized the wild brother with whom he had run for a night and a day.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I was just balancing whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her landau when a cab came through the street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aid was near him: Eliza and Georgiana had run for Mrs. Reed, who was gone upstairs: she now came upon the scene, followed by Bessie and her maid Abbot.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If you want to run for office in your club, you might come up against a club official or outspoken member who might be threatened by your strength and vision.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The only subject, she informed me, on which he ever showed a violent temper or swore an oath, was this generosity of his; and if it were ever referred to, by any one of them, he struck the table a heavy blow with his right hand (had split it on one such occasion), and swore a dreadful oath that he would be Gormed if he didn't cut and run for good, if it was ever mentioned again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)