Usually means: Sentence excessively long, lacks punctuation.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word run-on:

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

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (run-on)

adjective:  Continuing on where a rhetorical pause would be more appropriate.
adjective:  Placed or coming at the end of something, such as at the end of a dictionary entry.
noun:  (soccer, rugby, etc.) An amount of time spent playing on the field during a game, especially so as to evaluate a player's abilities.
noun:  A run-on sentence.
noun:  Anything that runs on, such as a run-on entry in a dictionary.
noun:  (machining) The period when a power saw or other tool continues to run after being powered off.

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