Definition of "run with"

run with

verb
third-person singular simple present runs with, present participle running with, simple past ran with, past participle run with
1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run,‎ with.
2. To follow something through to completion or realization.
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  3M's culture and its organizational structure are all directed to encouraging its people to take an idea and run with it.
  2006, David I. Cleland, Lewis R. Ireland, Project management: strategic design and implementation, page 83
3. (US, informal) To be a member of (a gang, hooligan firm, etc.); to associate with a, typically disreputable, individual or group.
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  The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, page 01
  For about three years, I ran with several different gangs.
  2011, Carl L. Adams, Wanted: Lost Souls, page 59
  Some of these wannabe hooligans ran with the Celtic Soccer Crew for a number of years without ever being arrested or suffering as much as a broken nail.
  2012, John O'Kane, Celtic Soccer Crew
4. To be streaming with a fluid.
5. To take an incomplete or inadequate (plan, text, etc.) and develop it further, often with the implication of carelessness.

Definition of "run with"

run with

verb

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