Runaround
noun
1.
indecisive or evasive treatment, especially in response to a request:
Ask for a raise and he’ll give you the runaround.
2.
Printing. an arrangement of type in which several lines are set in narrower measure than the others in a column to accommodate an illustration, initial, or the like.
see: get the runaround
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noun 1. a person who runs away; fugitive; deserter. 2. a horse or team that has broken away from control. 3. the act of running away. 4. a decisive or easy victory. 5. a young person, especially a teenager, who has run away from home. adjective 6. having run away; escaped; fugitive. 7. (of a […]