Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
well-run
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Public transport in this country is well-run and inexpensive.
▪ The Klausner is a comfortable well-run hotel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A well-run firm must strive to maintain an appropriate balance between business and financial risk.
▪ A thoroughly charming and well-run hotel, it was recently refurbished and is well-furnished throughout.
▪ All experience shows that the best intelligence comes from small, well-run agencies, not huge sprawling empires.
▪ In a well-run company there will be no question of simply rubber-stamping management decisions when a grievance or appeal is pursued.
▪ One, Rivergreen, in my constituency, is a happy, well-run, well-managed, well-staffed home.
▪ Substances that are lethal if inhaled, imbibed or touched may do no harm at all when safely confined to a well-run tip.
▪ The effectiveness of well-run programs, in fact, is no longer at issue.
▪ While no one could possibly argue that Benidorm is attractive, it is well-run and very popular.
Usage examples of "well-run".
It was one of the phenomena of a well-run gold mine that in a tour through the workings you encountered so few human beings.
A well-run cop stop with breathalyzers and making everybody get out of the car to find out if he can walk a straight line should hold the vultures in place for a least a half hour, so all five limos get away clean.
In a well-run outfit, it was said, a night rider would move off a hundred yards even to spit, while the lighting of a cigarette or a sudden cough was intolerable.