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Definition of run off phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

run off

phrasal verb
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run off
  1. (British English) (of a liquid) to flow out of a container
run something off
  1. to copy something on a machine
    • Could you run off twenty copies of the agenda?
  2. to cause a race to be run
    • The heats of the 200 metres will be run off tomorrow.
  3. to make a liquid flow out of a container
run off/away (together) | run off/away with somebody
  1. to leave home, your husband, wife, etc. in order to have a relationship with another person
    • He and the next-door neighbour ran off together.
    • He ran off with the next-door neighbour.
See run off in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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