Idiom
dummy run
Meaning
A trial or practice before the real attempt.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We did a dummy run before the big presentation.”
“The team organized a dummy run of the evacuation procedure to ensure everyone knew exactly where to go during an emergency.”
“Before launching the complex software update, the developers conducted a thorough dummy run to identify potential system failures and mitigate risks.”
Examples
simple
“We did a dummy run before the big presentation.”
contextual
“The team organized a dummy run of the evacuation procedure to ensure everyone knew exactly where to go during an emergency.”
complex
“Before launching the complex software update, the developers conducted a thorough dummy run to identify potential system failures and mitigate risks.”
Origin
From the compound of dummy, in the sense of a false or simulated object, and run, meaning a trial or test. The term emerged as a designation for a practice exercise or a preliminary test of a process.
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