RUNAWAY


Meaning of RUNAWAY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ rʌnəweɪ ]

( runaways)

1.

You use runaway to describe a situation in which something increases or develops very quickly and cannot be controlled.

Our Grand Sale in June was a runaway success.

...a runaway best-seller.

ADJ : ADJ n

2.

A runaway is someone, especially a child, who leaves home without telling anyone or without permission.

...a teenage runaway.

N-COUNT : oft N n

3.

A runaway vehicle or animal is moving forward quickly, and its driver or rider has lost control of it.

The runaway car careered into a bench, hitting an elderly couple...

ADJ : ADJ n

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