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smoothrunning en · ADJ

Etymology

From smooth + running.

Meanings

1. That operates in a smooth, trouble-free manner.
   • For 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 109:
   • This system of governing was claimed to produce an engine that was smoothrunning under all load conditions. 1997, Patrick Knight, Stationary Engine Review, page 32:
   • None of the reorganizations achieves the objective of creating a smoothrunning efficient corporation. 1974, H. B. Wilson, Democracy and the Work Place, page 41:
   • 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 117:

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