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run something up1Allow a debt or bill to accumulate: he ran up debts of $153,000...- He also suggested BT should use technology to detect obvious faults in the system before such enormous bills were run up.
- As a result of mismanagement, debts of 110 million guilders had been run up and these were taken on by the Dutch state.
- More costs were run up the next morning when the plumber returned to fit a temporary stop-cock.
Synonyms accumulate, accrue, amass, collect, gather, stockpile, heap up, rack up, build up, scrape together, hoard, lay in/up, garner; British tot up 1.1Achieve a particular score in a game or match: they ran up 467 runs for the loss of eight wickets...- With the wind behind them they ran up a score of 2 - 14 to 0 - 3 at half time.
- Imran Farhat and Taufeeq Umar played together 15 times and ran up 754 runs at an impressive average of 50.27 per innings.
- Danny Hennesey and Bob Wrigglesworth hit a flurry of boundaries as Drax looked like running up a mammoth score against Heworth.
2Make something quickly or hurriedly, especially a piece of clothing: I’ll run up a dress for you...- From running designs up on sewing machines at the back of the shop, Stephen soon grew to be a large-scale manufacturer.
- He was obsessed by her looks, to the extent of commissioning designers to run up body-hugging dresses for her.
- Watching musicals as a child sparked her interest, and she had her mother run up a Sound of Music dress to wear in a talent show at school.
3Raise a flag: they ran up the star and crescent...- The Americans put their emergency plans into operation, ran the American flag up over the house and settled down to wait things out.
- The bell at the Empire Hotel would ring at midday and a flag would be run up the pub's flag-pole to indicate the postponement of the match.
- Someone's even gone to the effort of digging out a flag with the college logo on it and run it up to half mast.
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