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trial run

noun

  1. a preliminary performance or test of something, as of the operation of a ship or the effectiveness of a play.


trial run

noun

  1. a test drive in a vehicle to assess its performance
  2. a test or rehearsal of something new or untried to assess its effectiveness
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of trial run1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

The pandemic gave people who were reluctant about it a sort of trial run.

If Australia allows her to participate, she may benefit from a trial run for potentially bigger games ahead.

Operators at a Pfizer plant outside Kalamazoo hoped the trial run could provide quick validation of the company’s gamble on a newfangled mRNA technology.

The plans for the musical — which, before the coronavirus shut down American theater, was to have had a trial run in Chicago — represent a wild pivot for a Shakespearean company.

The Port wound up dismantling its project after a year-and-a-half trial run.

“We had a pretty good trial run in 2008,” said one person close to the governor.

In its playfulness, this trial run for revolution set the tone for what was to follow.

After a six week trial run, Fox has chosen not to continue forward with the daytime talk show.

For the State of Palestine, as UNESCO recognizes it, the application for the church was a trial run.

If Ross had believed that his pre-trial-run cramming had been a rigorous business, he was soon to laugh at that estimation.

"Come on, Ned," he said to his chum early one evening after Mr. Swift had said he was too tired to go out on a trial run.

You can say I have gone out on a trial run, which won't be a lie, only an understatement.

Ordinary sort of writing, rather unformed and sprawly, but after a trial run Micky managed a very presentable copy of it.

The idea was voted excellent, and the trial run in Russia gave complete satisfaction.

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