See Also: running costs(dictionary)
Running Costs(money)
running(1)(dictionary)
Running(medicine)
running(2)(dictionary)
gun-running(dictionary)
Running - Sailing(gambling)
running time(dictionary)
running mate(dictionary)
Running ahead(money)

Richard (iou) and running costs (oh)


Richard (iou)



Richard noun. M17.
[Male forename; in sense 2 joc. back-form. from DICK noun3, in sense 3 rhyming slang for BIRD noun.]
A kind of apple. rare. M17-E18.
A detective. slang. E20.
A girl, a woman. Also more fully Richard the Third. rhyming slang. M20.
Comb.: Richard Roe Law (now US) an anonymous party, usu. the defendant, in a legal action, formerly spec. (English Law) in the now obsolete action of ejectment (cf. JOHN Doe (a)).

running costs (oh)



n [plural]
the amount of money needed to operate an organization, system, machine etc