"make the running" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes the running",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making the running",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the running",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the running",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> the running"
      },
      "expansion": "make the running (third-person singular simple present makes the running, present participle making the running, simple past and past participle made the running)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 7, Mark Brown, “Royal art show, The First Georgians, to open at Buckingham Palace”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "He added: \"In this period if you looked at the western world and asked who is making the running, from the point of view of modern society and particularly in terms of liberty, it would be Britain and we forget that. Britain is absolutely the model of the future.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have a leading or influential position in a field or activity; to be more active than others."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_the_running-en-verb-hYu5CsUO",
      "links": [
        [
          "leading",
          "leading"
        ],
        [
          "influential",
          "influential"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "field",
          "field"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "active",
          "active"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, chiefly UK) To have a leading or influential position in a field or activity; to be more active than others."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "set the pace"
        },
        {
          "word": "make all the running"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make the running"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes the running",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making the running",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the running",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the running",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> the running"
      },
      "expansion": "make the running (third-person singular simple present makes the running, present participle making the running, simple past and past participle made the running)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 7, Mark Brown, “Royal art show, The First Georgians, to open at Buckingham Palace”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "He added: \"In this period if you looked at the western world and asked who is making the running, from the point of view of modern society and particularly in terms of liberty, it would be Britain and we forget that. Britain is absolutely the model of the future.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have a leading or influential position in a field or activity; to be more active than others."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "leading",
          "leading"
        ],
        [
          "influential",
          "influential"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "field",
          "field"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "active",
          "active"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, chiefly UK) To have a leading or influential position in a field or activity; to be more active than others."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "set the pace"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "make all the running"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make the running"
}