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rundown
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In Scientology and Dianetics , a "rundown" is "a series of steps which are auditing actions and processes designed to handle a specific aspect of a case and which have a known end phenomena."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Here's a rundown of the wines you're most likely to find in local wine stores. ▪ Here is a rundown on the outdoor activities available in the resort. ▪ I want a complete rundown of what's been happening while I've been ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in baseball, 1908, from verbal phrase, from run (v.) + down (adv.). Meaning "list of entries in a horse race and the odds" is from 1935; slang generalized sense of "summary, account, list of information or facts" is from 1945.
Usage examples of rundown.
Dockside were the warehouses and ship outfitters, but above them was a section of town that seemed to consist exclusively of brothels, taverns, druggeries and rundown boarding houses.
I tracked down Squam in a rundown shooker hall on the port side of town.
By the time they had finished their main courses, chicken masala, chicken tikka, and a selection of vegetable curries, Phil had told Karen all about his inquiries and given her a rundown on Jennifer Roth.
Drubber ordered me some fresh Parm, and Pete gave me a thumbnail rundown on the romantic lives of a couple of guys in town.
Barney stayed back, sharing no more than a deep sigh with the old townie until after his brother, the girl, and the freak rounded the side of the rundown colonial.
Trail RunDown, I tear the Trekker ad out and take it to my own bear-calling closet.
So Flavia had to present herself at the main door as a private visitor, then wait in a rundown and dingy room for nearly forty minutes before Aldo Morante bounced in and gave her a most unpriestly kiss.
Flora Abernethy lived in a basement flat on a rundown street near the center of Edinburgh.
Abandoned buildings, crumbling streets, and rundown neighborhoods prevailed along both sides of the busy road that many Austinites used to go from north to south and back, avoiding the more heavily trafficked I-35 and Mopac.
CHAPTER XIV LINK BRINGS LINE HALTED like toy dolls with rundown mechanism, pygmy crooks heard the crash of the battering rock as it shattered saplings into match-wood.
Nevada on the sidewalk in front of a rundown shit-stained bungalow trying to explain to a cancer-riddled old man what the Hearts meant to me.
An Inupiaq Eskimo from a tiny village in the Brooks Range, Martha now lived in a rundown housing project in Fairbanks.
Wesley Karpas had in mind when he changed his name to Carp and sought to rise in society, this decrepit and rundown house, this money-sucking semifailure of a son.
When Paul shook his head, Kit asked him for a complete rundown on the other inhabitants and guests of Lokelani Farms.
It did not take him long to spot Lorraine Orvieto on a dank street in a rundown section of Bayshore, Long Island.