run sth up
— phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run
(DEBT)
If you run up a debt, you do things that cause you to owe a large amount of money:
She stayed two weeks at the hotel and ran up a bill that she couldn't pay.
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Borrowing & lending
- be in the hole idiom
- borrow
- bounce
- call it quits idiom
- call sth in
- credit
- credit risk
- debenture
- fire sale
- gearing
- leveraged buyout
- liability
- liquidate
- national debt
- pay
- put sth up
- reschedule
- slate
- term
- tick
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(MATERIAL)
to quickly make something such as a piece of clothing from material:
[ + two objects ] I can run you up some curtains in a few hours, if you want.
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Knitting & sewing
- appliqué
- backing
- baste
- bind
- bobbin
- bodkin
- cable stitch
- handknitted
- hem
- knit
- knitter
- knitting
- needle
- seamstress
- sew sth up
- sewing
- sewing machine
- shorten
- spinner
- tack
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Creating and producing
(VALUE)
to make the price or value of something increase:
Heavy buying ran the price of stocks up higher than expected.
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Price increases
- accrual
- added value
- appreciation
- bounce
- dead cat bounce
- hyperinflation
- inflation
- inflationary
- jack
- jump
- markup
- put sth up
- rack sth up
- rebound
- rise
- rocket
- run
- soar
- spiral
- zoom
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(FLAG)
UK to raise a flag into the air on a pole or mast:
They've run up a British flag on the roof.
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Raising and lowering
- elevate
- elevated
- erect
- go down
- hike sth up
- hoick
- hoist
- jack
- jack sth up
- lever
- leverage
- lower
- pick sb/sth up
- prick (sth) up
- put
- ride
- ride up
- run
- scoop sth/sb up
- winch
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