running time

1. 1.

   the length of time that a movie or tv show runs

   Broadertime period

Questions about running time

What does running time mean?

running time means "the length of time that a movie or tv show runs".

Is running time a common word?

running time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.