runup

• “On the morning of Saturday, December 2, Rivera and a relative, who knew even less about DC-7s than he did, took the plane out for what was called a runup, meaning they would taxi around the airstrip, warming up the engines, but not try to fly it.”

  Simon & Schuster: Into the Story

• “You know about all this stuff better than I, but all my other sites work and never experience the problems SP has had in runup to this election the last month.”

  Sound Politics: Comments under testing

• “Now interest rates are creeping up, making for bigger mtg. payments, the price runup is grinding to a halt.”

  C'ville Real Estate Bubble? at cvillenews.com

• “Also fueling the runup are the U.S. midterm election results.”

  Forbes: News On Earnings

• “Next, the peak of the wave hits the shore - a process called runup.”

  Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion

• “The suspense was intense in the runup to the release of nearly 24,000 pages of emails from the first two years of her term as governor, the result of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits by media companies.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Internet Lets It All Hang Out

• “Political analysts believe the Kremlin wants to ensure Khodorkovsky is not released in the runup to the 2012 presidential elections.”

  The Guardian: Mikhail Khodorkovsky attacks 'sick' Russian state

• “Police launched their "robust" strategy for the carnival in the runup to the event, making more than 40 pre-emptive arrests.”

  The Guardian: Notting Hill carnival draws hundreds of thousands of revellers and 6,500 police

• “Holy Flying Circus is not a biopic, but a fantastical reimagining of the Pythons' struggle with censorship in the runup to the release of Life of Brian, she added.”

  The Guardian: BBC to dramatise unholy row over Monty Python's Life of Brian

• “They want teachers and other public sector workers to lose a day's pay in the runup to Christmas.”

  The Guardian: Michael Gove blames strike action on 'militants itching for a fight'

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