Meanings
comparative more smoothrunning · superlative most smoothrunning
- That operates in a smooth, trouble-free manner.
None of the reorganizations achieves the objective of creating a smoothrunning efficient corporation.
1974, H. B. Wilson, Democracy and the Work Place, page 413 more examples
The placid, smoothrunning Zambesi abruptly comes to the knife cut gorge and plunges its excited waters over the cliff-wall to the foaming abyss below in great plumes of different colours, […]
1937 August, Le Grand P. Backman, “‘The Great North Road’”, in Cumorah’s Southern Messenger, volume 2, number 8, page 117For a smoothrunning household they need to spend more time developing a rewards system than a punishment system.
1995, Mary Ann Shaw, Your Anxious Child: Raising a Healthy Child in a Frightening World, page 109This system of governing was claimed to produce an engine that was smoothrunning under all load conditions.
1997, Patrick Knight, Stationary Engine Review, page 32
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