runoff
Meaning of runoff
noun
- That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
- Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
The runoff of nitrates is poisoning the lake.
- A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
There will now be a runoff as neither front runner received more than 50% of the vote.
Information about runoff
- It is a name.
- The plural form of runoff is: runoffs.
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Hyphenation of runoff
runoff
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- runoff is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
runoff synonyms
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Translation of runoff
- Spanish: escorrentía
- French: ruissellement
- Italian: ruscellamento
- Portuguese: runoff
Words that rhyme with runoff
Granoff, Ivanoff, Manoff, Mitrofanoff, Romanoff, Selivanoff, Stroganoff, romanoff, stroganoff, gnoff, signoff, Rachmaninoff, Zerewitinoff, spinoff, Aronoff, Voronoff, Sarnoff, Smirnoff, turnoff, Krasnoff, Glazunoff
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