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What is a runaround?

What is a runaround? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An evasive explanation in the form of multiple excuses.
  2. (printing) A section of type that is narrower than that of the column it is part of; typically next to an illustration.
  3. A whitlow running around the fingernail but not affecting the bone.
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Fair Go is back for its 27th year to help out Kiwis who have been ripped off, short-changed or given the runaround.
But how can you remain calm when some faceless administrator is giving you the runaround?
He says he personally booked the grounds, and cannot understand the runaround his team was given by the Technikon authorities.
But I get the first question, and if I think you're dancing around the answer, you'll get exactly the same kind of runaround from me.
Man mountain Matt has risen from the Fourth Division to the heart of Scotland's defence, but he was given the runaround by City when at Oxford.
When I asked the council and Bradford Vision what had become of the supplement I was given the runaround.

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