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run-on definition

run·-on (run′än′)

adjective

  1. Printing that is run on: see the phrase run on (sense ) at the entry run
  2. Prosody designating or of a line of verse that has little or no natural syntactic pause between it and the next line

noun

run-on matter

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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