smoothrunning

English

Etymology

From smooth +‎ running.

Adjective

smoothrunning (comparative more smoothrunning, superlative most smoothrunning)

1. That operates in a smooth, trouble-free manner.
   • 1937 August, Le Grand P. Backman, “‘The Great North Road’”, in Cumorah’s Southern Messenger, volume 2, number 8, page 117:

     The placid, smoothrunning Zambesi abruptly comes to the knife cut gorge and plunges its excited waters over the cliff-wall to the foaming abyss below in great plumes of different colours, […]

   • 1974, H. B. Wilson, Democracy and the Work Place, page 41:

     None of the reorganizations achieves the objective of creating a smoothrunning efficient corporation.

   • 1995, Mary Ann Shaw, Your Anxious Child: Raising a Healthy Child in a Frightening World, page 109:

     For a smoothrunning household they need to spend more time developing a rewards system than a punishment system.

   • 1997, Patrick Knight, Stationary Engine Review, page 32:

     This system of governing was claimed to produce an engine that was smoothrunning under all load conditions.