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runup
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n. a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time; "a runup in interest rates"; "market runups are followed by corrections" [syn: run-up ]
Usage examples of runup.
The men, bodyguards acting as oarsmen only for this last short runup, were leaping to the sand even before the hull thumped down.
Merrick, whom Charlie had never forgiven for causing him to sell the van Gogh, advised us to appoint Robert Fleming to be our merchant bankers in the runup to the flotation.
There were a few onlookers outside the Runway Restaurant at the entrance to the little airport, the usual assortment of people that hung around airports day or night, but when they saw the airplane with the tarps over it, they assumed it was being fixed, so few paid it any more attention--onlookers came to see takeoffs and landings, not engine runups or fuel tanks being drained or scrubbed out.