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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dial road runner up | 10 |
runner up | 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. | |
| 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. | ||
Misspellings | |
"RUNNER UP" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: runnerup. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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