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RUNNER UP

Specialty Definition: RUNNER UP

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Sports & Leisure

Inscription on a cup or trophee preceeding the name of the contestant who, without winning first place, receives a special recognition. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: RUNNER UP

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Screenplays

See, in the end Buffy's just the runner up. I am the queen (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Oh, Wendy was the one who was runner up for Ms. Wisconsin (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: RUNNER UP

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Economic History

Taiwan

CNP influence remains modest and seems on the wane; it won 21 of the 164 LY seats in the 1995 elections but only 11 of 225 seats in 1998. A new opposition party was formed in the wake of the March 2000 presidential election by the runner up, a KMT maverick candidate. (references)

Political Economy

Taiwan

A new political party was established in the wake of the March 2000 presidential election by the runner up, KMT-maverick candidate James Soong. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RUNNER UP

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dial road runner up

10

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7

american idol runner up

4

aiken american clay idol runner up

4

joe millionaire runner up

4

band runner up

4

blocker pop road runner up

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: RUNNER UP

Language Translations for "RUNNER UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i dyti (second). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏المتسابق الثاني في السباق. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

състезател спечелил второ място, отбор спечелил второ място, подгласник. (various references)

   

Czech

  

druhý za vítìzem. (various references)

   

French

  

second, mention. (various references)

   

German

  

vizemeister. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επιλαχών, δεύτεροσ επιτυγχάνων αγωνιστήσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ש י בתחרות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

második befutó, árfelhajtó. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

nomor dua (second). (various references)

   

Italian

  

secondo arrivato. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unnerray upay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

участник состязания (runner-up). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

takmičar (competitioner, competitor, contestant), pratilja (chaperon, griffin). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

subcampeón. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

uppkomling (cocktail, parvenu, runner-up, upstart). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yarış ikincisi, ikinci (deutero-, second, secondary, vice-). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: RUNNER UP

Misspellings

"RUNNER UP" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: runnerup. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: RUNNER UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-n-n-p-r-r-u-u"

-2 letters: pruner, punner, runner, unpure.

-3 letters: prune, purer, rerun, unpen.

-4 letters: pure, purr, ruer, rune.

-5 letters: ern, err, nun, pen, per, pun, pur, rep, rue, run, urn.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-n-p-r-r-u-u"
 

+5 letters: uninterrupted.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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