short-run

1. 1.

   relating to or extending over a limited period

   “short-run planning”

   “a short-term lease”

   “short-term credit”

   Synonymsshort-term

   Similarshort

Questions about short-run

What does short-run mean?

short-run means "relating to or extending over a limited period".

How many syllables are in short-run?

short-run has 2 syllables: shor-t-run. The stress falls on "shor".

What is another word for short-run?

Close synonyms include short-term. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is short-run a common word?

short-run 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.