Definitions for runoff

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runoff run·off

Spelling: [ruhn-awf, -of]

IPA: /ˈrʌnˌɔf, -ˌɒf/

Runoff is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in runoff (ffnoru).

Definitions for runoff

noun

1. something that drains or flows off, as rain that flows off from the land in streams.
2. a final contest held to determine a victor after earlier contests have eliminated the weaker contestants.
3. a deciding final contest held after one in which there has been no decisive victor, as between two contestants who have tied for first place.
4. Also called rundown. a continual or prolonged reduction, especially in quantity or supply:
5. Stock Exchange. the final prices appearing on the ticker after the closing bell is rung for the trading day.

Origin of runoff

1850-55, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase run off; (def 2, 3) see -off

Examples for runoff

So then-President George H.W. Bush and other prominent Republicans endorsed Treen in the House runoff.

runoff is checked by a sod and less water is used by a sod in mid-summer, after it has been mowed, than by a heavy cover crop.

Cochran just flat outworked his opponent all through the runoff.

Under Mississippi law, if no candidate receives 50 percent, a runoff is mandated, held three weeks later.

Geological conditions are frequently of great importance in their influence on the quantity and regularity of runoff.

Scrub on the remainder, however, serves to stabilize the soil of the forest lands against erosion and to slow the runoff of water.

They are spring-fed, and their runoff drains into Turkey Cock Run.

Tyner went on to note that correct legal remedy if the runoff was called into question was “a new election.”

But what if a Louisiana runoff will determine which party controls the Senate?

Another part may penetrate a little distance into the zone of weathering and then join the runoff.