The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
That which is expected or looked for.
The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
(colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
if a pen runs out, it has no more ink left in it
if an official agreement or document runs out, it stops being legal at a certain date
if someone is run out in cricket, they have to stop hitting the ball and leave the field because the other team hits one set of stumps (=sticks) with the ball before they can reach it
if something runs out, you do not have any more of it left
if time is running out, you do not have long to do something
to make a criminal or a person who you do not like leave a town
to use all of something and not have any left




