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short run, n. and a.
[f. short a. + run n.1]
A. n.
1. Cricket
a. A run made when the ball does not travel far enough to give time for an easy run.
b. One which does not count by reason of a batsman not having technically completed the run.
1830Laws of Cricket in Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor (1902) 23 If the striker run a short run, the umpire must call ‘One short’. 1833J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor (1902) 76–7 His decision was as prompt as his eye was accurate in calculating a short run. 1921P. F. Warner My Cricketing Life xi. 203 One of the features of his [sc. J. B. Hobbs's] long partnerships with Rhodes was the number of short runs they ran.
2. A relatively brief passage of time within a sequence of events (opp. long run, long-run), usu. in phr. in the short run.
1879Geo. Eliot Let. 18 Oct. (1956) VII. 212 Mrs. Healy's marriage is surely what you expected in the long or short run. 1928Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inquiry) iv. xxvii. 396 But we do not believe that in anything but the very short run industry benefits from displacing adult workers by successive relays of young boys and girls. 1940F. Pickersgill Let. 19 Jan. (1948) 151 Chamberlain is of course succeeding in the short run in getting rid of all the energetic and intelligent people in the Party. 1952Isard & Whitney Atomic Power ix. 185 The question arises whether the economic benefits of atomic power may be greater for such a country as Russia in the short-run and middle-run as well. 1965New Statesman 7 May 718/3 In the long run you will obtain substantial benefit from professional business schools like the one at Harvard... In the short run—well, I don't envy George Brown. 1971D. C. Hague Managerial Econ. ii. v. 112 In economic theory, the short run is defined as that period of time during which the physical capacity of the firm is fixed.
3. Theatr. A short period of being represented on the stage. Also attrib.
1922H. Granville-Barker Exemplary Theatre vi. 260 To replace the long run by the short run..or the hastily concocted ‘repertory’ season, is no remedy. Ibid. 262 Most of the ‘short-run’ theatres..by misplaced courtesy are dubbed ‘repertory’. 1961Twentieth Century Feb. 101 The short-run system of provincial repertory. 1967Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 3) 797/1 In Stratford-upon-Avon plays are now introduced into the bill one at a time, and given a short run before being merged in a changing bill.
4. A class or line of goods produced in limited quantity. Also attrib.
1957Times 4 Nov. 13/1 The blot on the British copy⁓book is the complaint from a number of stores that most manufacturers [of furniture] will not consider what are known in the trade as short runs. 1959Times 14 Jan. 12/4 Printing short-run quality bookwork. 1967V. Strauss Printing Industry x. 660/1 Foot-operated wire stitchers..are used for short runs or for jobs that cannot be handled on more automatic machinery. 1970Publishers' Weekly 8 June 152 Many speakers complained about printing short-run jobs: price is too high, quality is not good, and..deliveries are too slow. 1976Scotsman 25 Nov. 4/3 (Advt.), Craft Bookbinding. Contemporary style bindings in leather and cloth: short-runs re-backing and general restoration.
B. adj. (With hyphen.) Occurring in or relating to the short run; = short-term a.
1947Partisan Rev. XIV. 240 There is certainly a short⁓run tendency in critical situations toward reliance on reactionaries as counter to communists. 1958Listener 9 Oct. 548/1 A combination of short-run and long-term programming on two different political and geographical levels. 1966Philos. XLI. 294 Any cyclical view of history can harbour only a short-run optimism. 1979Internat. Jrnl. Sociol. of Law VII. 308 Larceny, some of it responsive to short-run price changes.
Also short runner, one skilled in making short runs (sense 1 a).
1833J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor (1902) 76–7 John Small..was the best short-runner of his day. |