phrasal verb · neutral

run with

/rʌn wɪð/RUN·with

task2speaking

accept an idea or suggestion and develop it further; also 'go along with' someone

Examples

The team decided to run with her proposal and prepare a pilot study.

If you want to run with that design, we can draft a budget.

He tends to run with people who share his interests.

Band 8 sentence

After a short discussion we agreed to run with her proposal and allocate funds for a pilot.

Collocations

  • run with an idea/proposal
  • run with a team

Word family

run with phrasal verbran with pastrunning with gerund

Common mistakes

followrun with

go withrun with

Say it for a higher band

5follow6go with7+run with

Synonyms

take forward

Easily confused

take forward

We decided to take the project forward next month.

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