Run Up

Definition: Run Up

Run Up

Verb

1. As of debts or scores.

2. Raise, as of flags or sails.

3. Fasten by sewing; do needlework.

4. Accumulate as a debt; "he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening".

5. Make by sewing together quickly; "run up a skirt".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Building & Civil Engineering

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Synonyms: Run Up

Credit

Verb: keep an account with, run up an account with; intrust, credit, accredit.

Debt

Verb: be in debt; Adjective: owe; incur a debt, contract a debt; Noun: run up a bill, run up a score, run up an account; go on tick; borrow; run into debt, get into debt, outrun the constable; run up debts, run up bills (spend).

Expenditure

Run up debts, run up bills (debt).

Increase

Verb: increase, augment, add to, enlarge; dilate; (expand); grow, wax, get ahead. gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; ascend; sprout.

Nonpayment

Pay under protest; button up one's pockets, draw the purse strings; apply the sponge; pay over the left shoulder, get whitewashed; swindle; run up bills, fly kites.

Price

Verb: bear a price, set a price, fix a price; appraise, assess, doom, price, charge, demand, ask, require, exact, run up; distrain; run up a bill; (debt); have one's price; liquidate.

Production

Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete).

Warfare

Raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly roger.

Crosswords: Run Up

I've been trying to run up your credit card bill to earn you enough Fly-Buys to get you a free mystery flight for your honeymoon (Kath & Kim; writing credit: Gina Riley; Jane Turner)

You're trying to run up a bunch of no-contest convictions to make your record look good (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: John Sayles)

I can't understand these armchair officers, fellas trying to fight a war from behind a desk, waving papers at the enemy, worrying about whether a mouse is gonna run up their pants leg. (Paths of Glory; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

We run up in there, e'rybody come out, don't nobody run out (Party Up; performing artist: DMX)

Run up to heaven doors, exchange my life for yours (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z)

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Music

• Run Up [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Economic History

Bahamas

Fees for work permits can run up to several thousand dollars each, and permits for less senior employees can be difficult to obtain. (references)

Senegal

Rice imports reached record levels of 658 TMT in 1999, due primarily to the piling up of stocks in the run up to the February 2000 presidential elections. (references)

Sri Lanka

The government spent around Rs 28 billion--about $350 million--more on defense in 2000. The government also increased wages and pensions of government servants in the run up to October parliamentary elections. (references)

Political Economy

SPAIN

Goods that are shipped to a Spanish customs area without proper import licenses or declarations are subject to considerable delay, may run up substantial demurrage charges, and have recently been rejected outright. (references)

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Expressions using "run up": run up a bill ♦ run up against ♦ run up against smb. ♦ run up bills ♦ run up bills debt ♦ run up bills spend ♦ run up debts ♦ run up the jolly roger ♦ run up to ♦ To run up. Additional references.

Albanian

rritem shpejt, zmadhohem (dilate, swell), periudhë përgatitore, ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), ngjitem me vrap, hov (Ardor, ardour, burst, dash, elan, glow, hop, hunch, jerk, spasm), arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total, touch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събирам (accumulate, add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call forth, call together, club, collect, compile, congregate, cumulate, drum up, embody, enlist, foot, furl, garner, gather, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pin down, pull together, punch, raise, rake, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, scare up, sum, sum up, swoop, total, totalize, whip in), увеличавам се (accrue, gather strength, thicken, wax), скалъпвам набързо, трупам (cluster, congregate, gather, heap, hive, lay up, pile, roll up, run, settle, shovel, store, treasure up), възлизам (add to, amount, figure out, reach, run out, tot up, work out), вдигам (carry away, carry off, elevate, flush, get up, heave, heft, hoist, hold up, kick up, lift, pick up, pull up, purchase, put up, raise, rear, rouse, take up, tip up, up), нараствам (accrete, accrue, grow, increase, thicken), натъквам се на (butt, come across, encounter, happen upon, meet with, run against, run into, run upon, strike, stumble across), наддавам (outbid, raise, take on), затичвам се, подготвителен период, подготовка (equipment, lead up, prelude, preparation, preparative, schooling, set out, training), издигам (advance, build, edify, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heft, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, pyramid, raise, rear, rose, set up, swing up, throw up, upbear, uplift, upraise). (various references)

Czech

vynášet (exalt, extol, pay, vaunt), stupòovat (compare, escalate, heighten, Mount), stoupat (ascend, climb, go up, lose height, rise, slope up), seèíst (add up, number, sum, sum up, summarize, tot, total), navršit. (various references)

Danish

loebe i froe (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up), gaa i froe (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up). (various references)

Dutch

ophijsen (hoist, hoist up), ophýsen (hoist, hoist up, wind up), hijsen (hoist, hoist up), hýsen (hoist, hoist up, wind up). (various references)

Esperanto

hisi (hoist, hoist up, wind up). (various references)

Faeroese

heysa (hoist, hoist up, wind up). (various references)

Finnish

tehdä siementä (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up). (various references)

French

ressac, monter en courant, laisser accumuler, hisser, élan (rush). (various references)

German

hochziehen (hike up, hitch up, hoist, hunch up, lift up, pull up, raise, through up, to hoist), hochfahren (drive up, go up, rise, start up), hissen (fly, haul up, hoist, hoist up, put up, to hoist, wind up), ansatz (approach, appropriation, attachment, attempt, basic approach, beginning, coating, departure, deposition, estimate, extension, first sign, formation, join, layer, rudiment, take off, takeoff), anlauf (approach run, inrun, onset, run, start, start-up, warm-up). (various references)

Greek 

φυλλοφυώ (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up), ανέρχομαι (accede, amount, amount to, come to, go up, run up to), αναπτύσσω φύλλα (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"רצ�" (running). (various references)

Hungarian

felfut (to come up into the wind, to run up). (various references)

Italian

rincorsa, periodo che precede natale, mettere insieme (blend, collect, concoct, gather, join, link, lump, mix, pick, pool, rustle up, string, unite), accumulare (accumulate, amass, gather, heap, hoard, pile, pile up, rack up, store). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

駆け上る (to run up), 駆け寄る (to run up to, to rush over). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かけあがる (to run up), かけよる (to run up to, to rush over). (various references)

Manx

roie seose. (various references)

Papiamen

isa (hoist, hoist up, wind up), hisa (hoist, hoist up, lever, lift, raise, wind up). (various references)

Pig Latin

unray upay.(various references)

Portuguese

remendar (botch, bushel, clout, darn, fudge, mend, patch, patch up, piece, revamp, slubber, vamp), subir preços (jump), montar (assemble, back, bestride, link, pitch, reach, ride, trim), hastear bandeira, fazer depressa, escolher (adopt, choose, cull, elect, like, list, opt, pick, pick out, select, single, sort, sort out, take, to choose), elogiar (belaud, commend, cry up, eulogize, glamorise, glamorize, glamourize, laud, panegyrize, praise, write up), correr ao encontro de, acumular dívidas. (various references)

Russian 

взбегать, орудовать, нарываться, нарваться, заход на цель (run), пуск, добегать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zalet (jump off, running start), ustrčati, trčati gore, pritrčati (run up to), postići (accomplish, achieve, be successful, befall, roll up, score), napraviti (crank out, incur, make, work), naići (come, fall on, find, meet, strike). (various references)

Spanish

seguir corriendo (run on), izar (hoist, put up, raise), hacer de prisa, crear (create, develop, devise, draw, endow, establish, found, invent, launch, make, mint, originate, put together, scoop, set up, think up). (various references)

Swedish

upptakt (anacrusis, beginning, preamble, run-up, upbeat), hissa (fly, hoist, Jack, jack up, lever, lift, pulley, raise), ansats (bound, onset, run-up, shoulder, start, stirring, striking of a note), anlopp (assault, crush, dash, run-up). (various references)

Turkish

hamle (attack, blow, burst, dart, dash, drive, elan, lunge, move, onset, pounce, push, put, scoop, scrum, scrummage, spurt), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up), şişirmek (bag, balloon, bloat, bloat up, blow up, bulk, distend, embroider, exaggerate, expand, fill, heave, heighten, inflate, overcharge, pad, pad out, pile it on, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put it on, put it on thick, swell out, swell up, tumefy), birden artmak (shoot up, skyrocket), daralmak (become narrow, contract, get bored, narrow, shrink), çabucak dikmek, hız kazanma, yukarıya koşmak, hedefe yaklaşma, kısalmak (close in, close upon, draw in, shorten, shrink), koşturmak (course, gallop, run, rush), koşuşmak (Frisk), motoru alıştırma (run in), yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, exalt, force, get up, heighten, hike up, increase, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, Louden, mark up, promote, push up, raise, rear, rise, scale up, screw up, send up, set up, step up, strengthen, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, upheave, uplift), dikivermek. (various references)

Ukrainian

розгін (racing), накочування, збільшуватися (accede, accrue, aggrandize, enlarge, expand, grow, increase, lengthen, multiply, vegetate, wax), піднматися, піднмати. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: pun, pur, run, urn.

-3 letters: nu, un, up.

+1 letter: prunus, turnup, unpure, upturn.

+2 letters: roundup, turnups, upturns.

+3 letters: prunuses, puncture, purpurin, pursuant, pursuing, purulent, roundups, unpruned, unpucker, unpurged, unsprung, upsprung, upturned, usurping.

+4 letters: penurious, punctured, punctures, purpurins, pursuance, purulence, rupturing, superfund, uncorrupt, uncoupler, uncrumple, ungrouped, unpopular, unpuckers, upcountry, upcurling, upcurving, uprousing, uprushing, upsurging, upturning.

+5 letters: epineurium, outpouring, peduncular, plunderous, pronucleus, puberulent, punctuator, puncturing, pursuances, pursuivant, purulences, repursuing, sulphuring, superfunds, superhuman, superlunar, uncouplers, uncrumpled, uncrumples, unproduced, unpuckered, usurpation.