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shorter-run

shorter-run is the comparative form of short-run.

Meaning of short-run

Adjective

short-run (comparative shorter-run, superlative shortest-run)

  1. (uncommon) Short-term; of a brief passage of time.

Questions about shorter-run

What is shorter-run the comparative form of?
Shorter-run is the comparative form of short-run.

Words near shorter-run in the dictionary

  1. shorter-grain
  2. shorter-grained
  3. shorter-haired
  4. shorter-haul
  5. shorter-lived
  6. shorter-run
  7. shorter-term
  8. shorteralls
  9. shorters
  10. Shortess
  11. shortest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shorter-run (page history and authors); short-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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