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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
run-up
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the run-up to the election (=the period of time before an election)
▪ There have been violent street protests in the run-up to the elections.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But I would like to know how much of a run-up he needed.
▪ I took an unnecessarily long run-up and struck the ball well, but high.
▪ In the run-up to the November 1992 presidential elections, education was seen as a key issue.
▪ Taking an absurdly long run-up, I scuffed my first attempt so badly that it trickled past the left-hand post.
▪ The prime minister's spin doctors paid great attention to women's magazines during the run-up to the poll.
▪ When a canvasser called during the election run-up, he decided to rejoin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
run-up

1834, "an act of running upward," from verbal phrase, from run (v.) + up (adv.). Extended sense "period of time or sequence of events proceeding some important event" is from 1966.

Wiktionary
run-up

n. 1 (context cricket English) The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball 2 The approach run of a high jumper or other athlete in order to gather speed or momentum

WordNet
run-up

  1. n. a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time; "a runup in interest rates"; "market runups are followed by corrections" [syn: runup]

  2. the approach run during which an athlete gathers speed

Wikipedia
Run-up (aviation)

In aviation, run-up, or runup, is the series of last-minute checks performed by pilots on an aircraft prior to take-off. Run-ups are also sometimes performed by aircraft mechanics, either at a gate in between flights or in a maintenance hangar, to test engines and diagnose engine problems.

Run-up (cricket)

In cricket, a run-up is the approach a bowler makes when preparing to deliver the ball. The ball must be delivered from behind a bowling crease, but preparation to bowl the ball can be done any way the bowler wishes. Every different bowler approaches the wicket in a personal way, and so there can be many and varied "run-ups".

However, as a general rule the different types of bowlers use similar approaches to each other. For example, Spin bowlers tend to have very short run-ups, some even approach the bowling crease at a walking pace. Medium bowlers tend to run up off a short run-up of about 10 paces or so. Fast bowlers tend to have long, rhythmical run-ups to allow them to develop momentum which adds to their ability to bowl the ball at high speeds.

Run-up

Run-up, also runup, may be:

  • Run-up (cricket), type of movement made by a bowler
  • Run-up (aviation), aircraft verification procedure performed just prior to take-off
  • The maximum height on land reached by a tsunami as it encounters the shore

Usage examples of "run-up".

Gifts that arrive at home obviously ought to be declared by the client to his employer, just in case they were ever to influence him in deciding who to give a piece of business to, but somehow in the hurly-burly of the run-up to Christmas, when there are a thousand and one things to do, some things may be overlooked.

Cat looked nervously about him as Bluey, strapped into the left seat for the first time, did his run-up of the airplane.

Bryan picked up and reunited a good deal of the Protestant nativist tradition of the American Party or Rnow-Nothings, which had collapsed when their Northern and Southern wings split in the run-up to the Civil War.

We did the engine run-up, checked both magnetos, then set flaps and pushed the throttle all the way in.

We all got spoiled by the Eurasian War an' the run-up to it, bein' free to concentrate on conventional warfare.