rundown

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)

Word Origin

rundown (n.)
in baseball, 1908, from verbal phrase, from run (v.) + down (adv.). Meaning "list of entries in a horse race and the odds" is from 1935; slang generalized sense of "summary, account, list of information or facts" is from 1945.

Example

1. A rapid rundown in inventories and temporary distortions in credit markets have not helped .
2. Here is one rundown of this year 's ongoing road , rail and subway projects .
3. Water that had been turned to ice ; turn a rundown house into a show place .
4. You started on that rundown yet ?
5. The communist-era housing blocks I spot on the way out of ruse are the most rundown I have seen in the region .

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