"run late" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-run late.ogg [Australia] Forms: runs late [present, singular, third-person], running late [participle, present], ran late [past], run late [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|run<,,ran,run> late}} run late (third-person singular simple present runs late, present participle running late, simple past ran late, past participle run late)
  1. (idiomatic, chiefly used in the present participle) To be late; to fail to be on time. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: late-running
    Sense id: en-run_late-en-verb-o-5qzyFA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for run late meaning in English (1.9kB)

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