rundown
pronunciation
How to pronounce rundown in British English:
UK [ˈrʌndaʊn]
How to pronounce rundown in American English:
US [ˈrʌndaʊn]
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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 .