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Definition of Runaway
Runaway

One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.

The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.

Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.

Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.

Won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory.

Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.

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Runaway Quotations

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.
Carre Otis

It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet.
Jim Sullivan

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.
Dixie Lee Ray

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.
Sherrod Brown

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.
Nick Clooney

Runaway Translations

runaway in French is fuyard
runaway in Spanish is fugitivo


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