1) Bureaucratic buck-passing 2) Colloquialism for paronychia 3) Evasive answer 4) Evasive treatment
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1) Evasion
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[UK game show] Runaround was produced by Southern Television for the ITV network between 2 September 1975 and 7 September 1981. It was much more successful than the American version that was originally originated. The original host was comedian Mike Reid. In 1977 his place was taken by Leslie Crowther and Stan Boardman, before Reid returned...
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[game show] Runaround was a children`s television game show produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions. The program was hosted by ventriloquist and voice actor Paul Winchell, airing Saturday mornings on NBC from September 9, 1972 to September 1, 1973. Paul would frequently use his dummies, Jerry Mahoney and/or Knucklehead Smiff on his program....
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[story] `Runaround` is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, featuring his recurring characters Powell and Donovan. It was written in October 1941 and first published in the March 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It appears in the collections I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990). Runaround i...
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[typography] In typography, a runaround is where the ends of lines of text are adjusted to conform to a box or irregular shape, rather than a simple vertical column margin. This is done where an image or other content (known as an intrusion) occupies part of a column, with the text conforming to the shape of the object. ...
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(from the article `robot`) The word robotics first appeared in Isaac Asimov`s science-fiction story Runaround (1942). Along with Asimov`s later robot stories, it set a new ...
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Colloquialism for paronychia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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Runaround is slang for an evasion, obstruction or confusing response.
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(runaround ) the practice of detaching a locomotive from its train, driving it to the other end of the train and re-attaching it, to allow the train to proceed in the direction it has just come from (e.g. when it reaches its destination and forms a service in the other direction).
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indecisive or evasive treatment, esp. in response to a request: Ask for a raise and he'll give you the runaround. · 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.
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Frenetic activity by characters we don?t care about, usually in search of objects or goals we?re uninterested in seeing them achieve
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