Usually means: Operational and fully functioning smoothly.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word up and running:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. up and running: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. up and running: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. up and running: Collins English Dictionary
  4. up and running: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. up and running: Wiktionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. up and running: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. up and running: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) operational, in operation

Similar:
operating, in effect, operative, live, good to go, operable, functional, operational, in business, active, more...

Opposite:
down, inactive, offline, halted, stopped

Phrases:
get up and running, have a factory up and running, more...

Adjectives:
up, advance, up and coming, plus, well up, up on, step-up, uprated, uptown, au courant, upstair

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Similar:
operating, in effect, operative, live, good to go, operable, functional, operational, in business, active, more...

Opposite:
down, inactive, offline, halted, stopped

Phrases:
get up and running, have a factory up and running, more...

Adjectives:
up, advance, up and coming, plus, well up, up on, step-up, uprated, uptown, au courant, upstair



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