dry-runv.
/drʌɪˈrʌn/, /ˈdrʌɪˌrʌn/, U.S. /ˈdraɪˌrən/ transitive. To rehearse or practise (a performance, presentation, procedure, etc.); to give (something) a practice, trial, or dummy run.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > make experiment of or with [verb (transitive)] > make trial run of
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1949 Mil. Engineer 41 447/2 The abandonment of a second contact camp for instructors, which had been requested for the purpose of dry-running the whole program.
1962 Sunday Tel. 30 Dec. 12/2 Granada Television, in fact, dry-ran a programme to be called ‘Man Bites Dog’, and turned it in, realising it couldn't get away with it.
1997 J. O. Grady Syst. Validation & Verification 225 You may choose to dry run the audit to make certain that everything is in order for the real thing.
2017 B. Alexander Glass House xiii. 239 Solomon called on the members of his team to dry-run their presentations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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