runthrough

plural runthroughs

1. alternativeAlternative form of run-through.

   You've had the first runthrough of a complicated, multifaceted musical production and it's hanging together.

   1991, Lynn M. Soeby, Way Off Broadway

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   There are generally three to five runthroughs at which the director feels his company is ready to be criticized by "outsiders." A large or small audience of friends may be invited to the last two of the runthroughs.

   1994, Harold Clurman, Marjorie Loggia, Glenn Young, The Collected Works of Harold Clurman, page 439

   Emerging in the feedback phase of a larger conference presentation rehearsal activity, this general kind of negative observation is a linguistic resource deployed by Ron, the principal research investigator, to communicate what he considers to have been relevant omissions in the presentation runthrough.

   2002, Cecilia E. Ford, Barbara A. Fox, Sandra A. Thompson, The Language of Turn and Sequence, page 148

1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of run-through.

   One of the advantages of Conrail certainly is in runthrough trains.

   1976, American Association of Railroad Superintendents, Proceedings and Committee Reports of Annual Meeting, page 26

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   Much of D. & H. joint service is conducted by runthrough train operations, which eliminate terminal delay.

   1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Northeastern Railroad Transportation Crisis, page 932