English Dictionary

rundown

noun

(chiefly with definite article "the") A rough outline of a topic or situation. / (gambling) A summary of the horses to be raced on a particular day, with their weights, jockeys, odds, etc.

I need a rundown of the meeting agenda.

意味（1）

(chiefly with definite article "the") A rough outline of a topic or situation.

Could you give me the rundown on the new rules?

意味（2）

(gambling) A summary of the horses to be raced on a particular day, with their weights, jockeys, odds, etc.

Comes post-time, and I am at the bookie joint listening the running descriptions and rundowns, […]

意味（3）

(baseball) A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out.

Smith is caught in a rundown, but Jones will come around to score.

意味（4）

A Caribbean stew of meat or fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings.

意味（5）

A reduction, e.g. of an activity, or in the size of something, such as a fleet.

The rundown of LNER's Class 91/Mk 4 fleet continues, with two more locomotives sent for store at Doncaster and a rake of coaches moving to Worksop,