Definition of running battle in English:
running battle
nounˌrʌnɪŋ ˈbat(ə)lˌrənɪŋ ˈbædl
1A military engagement which does not occur at a fixed location.
Example sentencesExamples
- The running battle up the Channel was inconclusive (two Spanish ships lost through accident) and only the English fireship attack on the Armada's anchorage off Calais broke the stalemate.
- They fought a running battle in Haifa Street.
- His ‘Mahdi army’ fought running battles with the British Army in Basra and in the Maysan province.
- Troops fought running battles with Iraqi forces on roads leading to Baghdad.
- This set the pattern for the entire mission with a series of fierce running battles, day and night, against conventional forces and specially trained counter-SF troops.
- 1.1 A confrontation which has gone on for a long time.
Example sentencesExamples
- What it certainly did was to set off a series of running battles and feuds that brought the project to a practical standstill for the next nine months.
- ‘We had a running battle with the Globe,’ complains the Flynn manager.
- He had a running battle with the editor of the Vanuatu Trading Post, the country's only non-government news source.
- More generally, the securities and insurance industries have fought a running battle, one weapon being litigation, against the expansion of banks into these areas.
- The lawsuit is the latest salvo in a long running battle against farm pollution in California's Central Valley.
Definition of running battle in US English:
running battle
nounˌrənɪŋ ˈbædlˌrəniNG ˈbadl
1A military engagement which does not occur at a fixed location.
Example sentencesExamples
- Troops fought running battles with Iraqi forces on roads leading to Baghdad.
- The running battle up the Channel was inconclusive (two Spanish ships lost through accident) and only the English fireship attack on the Armada's anchorage off Calais broke the stalemate.
- They fought a running battle in Haifa Street.
- His ‘Mahdi army’ fought running battles with the British Army in Basra and in the Maysan province.
- This set the pattern for the entire mission with a series of fierce running battles, day and night, against conventional forces and specially trained counter-SF troops.
- 1.1 A confrontation which has gone on for a long time.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘We had a running battle with the Globe,’ complains the Flynn manager.
- More generally, the securities and insurance industries have fought a running battle, one weapon being litigation, against the expansion of banks into these areas.
- He had a running battle with the editor of the Vanuatu Trading Post, the country's only non-government news source.
- The lawsuit is the latest salvo in a long running battle against farm pollution in California's Central Valley.
- What it certainly did was to set off a series of running battles and feuds that brought the project to a practical standstill for the next nine months.