Usually means: Water flow that leaves land.
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  1. runoff: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. runoff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. runoff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. runoff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. runoff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. runoff: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. runoff: Dictionary.com
  12. runoff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. RUNOFF, Runoff (hydrology), Runoff (program), Runoff (water), Runoff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. runoff: Rhymezone
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  16. runoff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. runoff: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. runoff: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Runoff: Investopedia
  4. runoff: Legal dictionary
  5. Runoff: Financial dictionary
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  1. Runoff (hydrology), Runoff (water), runoff: Encyclopedia

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  4. runoff: Evolution Glossary
  5. RUNOFF: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. runoff: Canadian Soil Information System
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Runoff: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  6. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
noun:  Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
noun:  (sports) A second or further round of a competition, after other competitors (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
noun:  (politics) A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.

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