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Word entry · 6 letters

runoff

Best crossword clue

"Follow-up election"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ffnoruStarts with REnds with F1 cluesCommon crossword word
1R2U3N4O5F6F

Definitions

  1. a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner

Word origin

Deverbal from run off.

Used in a sentence

  • The next series of high tides or large waves will tend to rebuild the berm and redam the stream. Ultimately, increased runoff due to fall or winter rains will raise the stream level to the point where it breaks through.
  • The runoff of nitrates is poisoning the lake.
  • Toxic runoff from rare earth mines in Myanmar is contaminating rivers that flow into Thailand, threatening the Mekong River and its basin's fisheries and farmland.

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