0 an occasion when you practise a particular activity or performance:
1 an occasion in which you practice a particular activity or performance in preparation for the real event:
We had a dry run of the inauguration ceremony yesterday.
Review meetings have taken place with four regional health authorities so far this year, the first two on a "dry run" basis.
After several dry runs, live firing commenced, and the first pilot fired on the reserve target.
The case, however, proved a dry run for a successful strategy used later to secure another windfall.
It could be used in a dry run to verify that joint limits are not violated.
Some way through they'll present it to me - almost like a dry run with the client.
He does not believe that an experiment and a "dry run", as he described it, is the thin end of a permanent wedge.
The scheme is included in the health authority's dry run capital programme to start in 1984–85.
They will take the form of a dry run and will not affect anyone's benefit.
