What does run for mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. run, run forverb

    extend or continue for a certain period of time

    "The film runs 5 hours"

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  1. run forverb

    To try to obtain political position through the democratic voting process.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of run for in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of run for in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of run for in a Sentence

  1. Ed Markey:

    I think anyone who was speculating along the lines that I wasn't going to be in this race did not understand me, or my father, or the house that I grew up in, there wasn't even a single moment where I was going to do anything other than run for reelection in the era of Donald Trump to continue to fight Donald Trump.

  2. Kathleen Sebelius:

    There is no question that the vetting helped, first of all, the vetting you go through as vice president is so much more rigorous than anything I had ever been through even though I had run for office. ... You get your profile a bit elevated, but you also have all of the possible warts in your background, every vote I had taken, all of our financial decisions, what our kids did, all of that had been combed ever.

  3. Jim Banks:

    If Donald Trump doesn't run for president in' 24, then we have the best field we've ever had, if Donald Trump does run, I think Donald Trump clears the field, Donald Trump's the nominee and I think Donald Trump wins in a landslide in November 2024.

  4. Hillary Clinton:

    Why don't you go run for something then?

  5. Height Securities analyst Daniel Hanson:

    Dealing with PROMESA allows the insurers to trade some payments in the short-run for higher recoveries in the long-run. Ultimately that is a better business proposition for them than having to continue to limp along and never reach a deal.


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