0 to refuse to help someone, sending them to someone or somewhere else to get help:
1 a series of actions or answers to questions that prevent someone from achieving something:
He expected to get the runaround, but surprisingly, the store offered him a refund.
By the summer of 1602, however, they began to sense that they were getting the runaround.
Our manager cannot help because he is being given the runaround whenever he does try.
At that stage he must have thought that we were giving him the runaround.
It was a four-pint briefing, which led to a five-point plan that has just given us a six-year runaround.
This has been an incredible legislative runaround, but it is typical of the fuddle one encounters when one tries to bring to book a matter of malpractice by accountants.
He has had the runaround.
And what a runaround it has been.
There was a run-around loop for the engine and a crossing loop from which the engine shed and any industrial siding could be accessed.
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