Usually means: Increase or accumulate over time.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word run up:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. run up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. run-up, run up: Merriam-Webster
  3. run-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. run-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. run-up, run-up, run up: Collins English Dictionary
  6. run-up, run up: Vocabulary.com
  7. Run-Up, Run-up, run-up: Wordnik
  8. run-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. run-up, run up: Wiktionary
  10. run-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. run-up, run up: Dictionary.com
  12. run-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Run Up, Run-up (aviation), Run-up (cricket): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. run-up, run up: Rhymezone
  15. run-up, run up: FreeDictionary.org
  16. run-up, run up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. run-up, run up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. run up: Legal dictionary
  3. run up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run-up, run up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Run up, run up: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. run-up: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Run-up: Sports Definitions

(Note: See run_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (run up)

verb:  To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
verb:  (with to) To approach (an event or point in time).
verb:  (transitive) To take to a destination or before an authority.
verb:  To erect hastily, as a building.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
verb:  (transitive) To string up; to hang.
verb:  (cricket) Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
verb:  (idiomatic) To accumulate (a debt).
verb:  To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
verb:  (aviation, transitive) To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
verb:  (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes reflexive) To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
noun:  Alternative form of run-up [(cricket) The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball.]

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