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dry-run

dry-run is the alternative form of dry run.

Meaning of dry run

Noun

dry run (plural dry runs)

  1. (idiomatic) A practice or rehearsal; especially, one that goes through all the motions of a physical process but without the raw material or workpiece present.
    • They did a dry run of the demonstration before showing it to the CEO.
    Synonyms:
    dummy run

Forms of dry-run

pluraldry-runs

Questions about dry-run

What is dry-run the alternative form of?
Dry-run is the alternative form of dry run.

Words near dry-run in the dictionary

  1. dry-laid
  2. dry-nurse
  3. dry-nurses
  4. dry-pipe valve
  5. dry-rot
  6. dry-run
  7. dry-runs
  8. dry-salt
  9. dry-salted
  10. dry-salting
  11. dry-salts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dry-run (page history and authors); dry run (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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