runaway
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈrʌnəˌweɪ/
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fugitivo
- But just for the record 95% of all runaways return home within the first six hours.
- runaway youth
- young runaways
- report a runaway
It's most of them are runaways and they come home for the most part.
- It's most of them are runaways and they come home for the most part.
- There are semi runaways and now they had this whole family.
- There's all kinds of, you know, things that accompany the the sort of semi homeless runaway teenager.
- And while she's there, she accidentally saves a runaway Princess who has stolen this scroll from her father, the king.
- It gives the federal government tons of muscle and power to like tread walk all over state jurisdictions trying to catch runaways.
- Under open cases behind the runaway shelter were the other houses, intensely nondescript in the pale grey sky.
- Greg Sulkin, the runaway is pretty smart.
Examples
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Orion Center's drop-in programs serve homeless, runaway, and street-involved youths between the ages of 11 and 20.
Academic text (1994) -
Two-thirds of runaway children are not reported missing by parents or carers.
Academic text (2010) -
Just after you help me find my runaway bride.
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Probably taking in runaways and working them at truck stops.
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More than half were runaways.
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"We're looking for a runaway named Orion," said a bearded man.
Fiction book (2002) -
We have a runaway.
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Safe@Last runs a two-bed refuge offering direct access accommodation to runaways in Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley, and Sheffield.
Academic text (2010) -
Every year, thousands of runaways escape their homes to find freedom and independence.
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The charity provides resources and support for runaways who are seeking refuge from dangerous situations.
Synonyms
213
6.6
A person who runs away and hides from the police or danger
1
8.7
A person who runs away to avoid arrest or punishment
Compounds
A small plant often grown in hanging baskets with trailing stems, rounded leaves and small purple flowers
How Sudden
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Etymology
Runaway comes from the words run and away, meaning 'to run away' from a place. So a runaway is a person who has left secretly to escape trouble.