run to sth
— phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run
(SIZE)
to reach a particular amount, level, or size:
The new encyclopedia runs to several thousand pages.
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Numbering & counting
- absolute value
- cash
- cash up
- count
- count sth out
- counter
- decimal
- decimalization
- headcount
- innumerate
- modulus
- number
- number line
- numerate
- pagination
- reckon
- reckon sth in
- recount 1
- run
- tot sth up
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(MONEY)
to have enough money to buy something or (of an income, etc.) to be enough to buy something:
I can lend you €1,000, but I can't run to more than that.
My salary won't run to foreign holidays.
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Paying money
- ante
- chargeable
- congestion charge
- demurrage
- disburse
- discharge
- disgorge
- expense
- fork
- fork out sth
- overspend
- pay up
- put sth down 1
- repayable
- self-financing
- sink
- spring
- square
- tip
- worth
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(ACTIVITY)
If your taste or skill runs to something, that is the type of thing that you enjoy or can manage to do:
I doubt if his musical taste runs to opera.
My cooking skills don't run to fancy cakes and desserts.
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Taking pleasure in something
- bask
- bask in sth
- bask/bathe in reflected glory idiom
- be a glutton for punishment idiom
- be a great one for sth idiom
- drool
- ecstasy
- glory
- glutton
- have a ball idiom
- have a field day idiom
- have a rare old time idiom
- hedonic
- lap
- relish
- revel
- revel in sth
- ride (on) a wave of sth idiom
- self-indulgent
- soak
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