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school run en · NOUN
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(UK) A period of increased traffic where parents or carers take or collect children to and from school by car; a journey for this purpose during this period.
The roads are crammed with parents on the school run.
A billion trips are made on the school run every year and, between us, parents produce two million extra tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, a cause of global warming.
2006 April 30, Cole Moreton, “The school run”, in The Independent:Would you mind doing the school run for James this morning?
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