runthrough

Alternative form of run-through.

Adjective

  1. Alternative form of run-through.
    • 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,...
    • 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:

Origin

Deverbal from run through.

Noun

  1. Alternative 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:
    • 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. -...
    • 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...

Forms

runthroughs