Usually means: Continuation without proper sentence separation.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word run on:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. run on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. run-on, run on: Merriam-Webster
  3. run-on, run on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. run-on: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. run-on, run-on, run on: Collins English Dictionary
  6. run-on, run on: Vocabulary.com
  7. run-on: Wordnik
  8. run on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. run-on, run on: Wiktionary
  10. run-on: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. run-on: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. run-on: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. run-on, run on: Dictionary.com
  14. Run On (Moby song), Run On (band), Run-on: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. run-on, run on: Rhymezone
  16. run-on, run on: FreeDictionary.org
  17. run-on, run on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. run-on, run on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run on: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run-on: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Molecular Biology Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run on: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See run_ons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (run on)

verb:  (idiomatic) To continue without interruption
verb:  Using a certain time zone.
verb:  (idiomatic) To continue talking for a long time.
verb:  To operate with a particular energy source.
verb:  To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank.
verb:  (printing, historical) To carry on or continue (e.g. the type for a new sentence) without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on.
verb:  (transitive) To rely on (something) for popular support in an election.
verb:  (ditransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To attempt to enact (a plan, trick or scheme) on (someone).

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