Definition of "run on"

run on

verb
third-person singular simple present runs on, present participle running on, simple past ran on, past participle run on
1. (idiomatic) To continue without interruption
2. Using a certain time zone.
  Quotations
  Sorry, Hillary. I was running on CP time.
  2016 April 9, Bill de Blasio, "Shamilton" at the Inner Circle Dinner
3. (idiomatic) To continue talking for a long time.
4. To operate with a particular energy source.
5. To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank.
  Quotations
  Accordingly, depositors may run on a bank upon the receipt of adverse economic news that induces them to revise their assessment of a bank's soundness.
  2009, Heidi Mandanis Schooner, Michael W. Taylor, Global Bank Regulation: Principles and Policies, page 27
6. (printing, historical) To carry on or continue (e.g. the type for a new sentence) without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.
7. (transitive, dated) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on.