"running battle" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "running battles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "running battle (plural running battles)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Richard Hough, Denis Richards, The Battle of Britain, page 174",
          "text": "A ferocious running battle now developed between the Heinkels and their escort and the Spitfires and Hurricanes of 72, 605, 41 and 79 Squadrons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Greg McLaughlin, Stephen Baker, The British Media and Bloody Sunday",
          "text": "But that's a running battle down Rossville Street!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Robbie MacNiven, Battle Tactics of the American Revolution, page 24",
          "text": "At the battle of Oriskany on August 6, 1777, Native American forces sprang their ambush on passing militia too soon, resulting in a ferocious running battle through surrounding woodland.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fight that moves, with attacks occurring in various places."
      ],
      "id": "en-running_battle-en-noun-yobmKH2V",
      "links": [
        [
          "fight",
          "fight"
        ],
        [
          "move",
          "move"
        ],
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ]
      ]
    },
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Belinda Brewin, Trouble Brewin - A True Story of Sex, Murder, Love and Betrayal",
          "text": "Not only did they not get on, but they also had a constant running battle which had become increasingly bitter over time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Glenn Colquhoun, Late Love",
          "text": "I have fought a running battle with medicine for much of my career. I have wanted to leave it for poetry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, John le Carré, Agent Running in the Field",
          "text": "Prue delivers herself of a capsule account of her running battle with the barons of Big Pharma.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A conflict that continues over a long period of time, usually with periodic eruptions of fighting."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "conflict",
          "conflict"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "running battle"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "running battles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "running battle (plural running battles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Richard Hough, Denis Richards, The Battle of Britain, page 174",
          "text": "A ferocious running battle now developed between the Heinkels and their escort and the Spitfires and Hurricanes of 72, 605, 41 and 79 Squadrons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Greg McLaughlin, Stephen Baker, The British Media and Bloody Sunday",
          "text": "But that's a running battle down Rossville Street!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Robbie MacNiven, Battle Tactics of the American Revolution, page 24",
          "text": "At the battle of Oriskany on August 6, 1777, Native American forces sprang their ambush on passing militia too soon, resulting in a ferocious running battle through surrounding woodland.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fight that moves, with attacks occurring in various places."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fight",
          "fight"
        ],
        [
          "move",
          "move"
        ],
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Belinda Brewin, Trouble Brewin - A True Story of Sex, Murder, Love and Betrayal",
          "text": "Not only did they not get on, but they also had a constant running battle which had become increasingly bitter over time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Glenn Colquhoun, Late Love",
          "text": "I have fought a running battle with medicine for much of my career. I have wanted to leave it for poetry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, John le Carré, Agent Running in the Field",
          "text": "Prue delivers herself of a capsule account of her running battle with the barons of Big Pharma.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A conflict that continues over a long period of time, usually with periodic eruptions of fighting."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "conflict",
          "conflict"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "running battle"
}