runnings

English Definition

How a system or bureaucracy works; how people operate; the status quo

Etymology

• (Literally, "how things are run.")

Examples

• "Ef yuh waan eat a food out yah, yuh haffi know di runnings, yuh zimmi?"

  If you want to be successful in this place, you need to know how the system works, a'ight?

• "“DI RUNNINGS: The natural order of things, how things are done, what is to be expected etc. […]”"