Dictionary:

runner

  (rŭn'ər)

1. Sports. One who competes in a race.
2. 1. Baseball. One who runs the bases.
   2. Football. One who carries the ball.
3. A fugitive.
4. One who carries messages or runs errands.
5. One who serves as an agent or collector, as for a bank or brokerage house.
6. One who solicits business, as for a hotel or store.
7. 1. A smuggler: a narcotics runner.
   2. A vessel engaged in smuggling.
8. One who operates or manages something: the runner of a series of gambling operations.
9. A device in or on which something slides or moves, as:
   1. The blade of a skate.
   2. The supports on which a drawer slides.
10. A long narrow carpet.
11. A long narrow tablecloth.
12. A roller towel.
13. Metallurgy. A channel along which molten metal is poured into a mold; a gate.
14. Botany.
    1. A slender creeping stem that puts forth roots from nodes spaced at intervals along its length.
    2. A plant, such as the strawberry, having such a stem.
    3. A twining vine, such as the scarlet runner.
15. Any of several marine fishes of the family Carangidae, especially the blue runner (Caranx crysos), of temperate waters of the American Atlantic coast. Also called blue runner.
16. Sports. See flat¹ (sense 9).

A broker employee who delivers a market order to the broker's floor trader. After a customer places an order to the broker's order taker, the runner will pass the instructions to the pit trader and wait for confirmation. Once the trade is executed, the runner will return to the order taker, confirming the order has been filled.

Investopedia Says:
Runners are an important link between the customer and the floor trader. They are responsible for passing on the a customer's order to the broker in a timely fashion. The runner communicates all terms associated with a market order and whether the order is of a specific type. As exchanges have slowly shifted from a floor-based trading environment to electronic platforms, the need for runners has decreased as orders are processed electronically.

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noun

1. A person who carries messages or is sent on errands: bearer, carrier, conveyer, courier, envoy, messenger, transporter. See over/under.
2. A person who engages in smuggling: bootlegger, contrabandist, smuggler. See crimes, move/halt.
3. A young stemlike growth arising from a plant: bine, offshoot, shoot, sprig, sprout, tendril. See kin.

n. 1. a messenger in the army.

2. a person who smuggles specified goods into or out of a country or area: a drug-runner.

3. a rope run through a block.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

1 A metal supporting member which is attached to structural steel members or concrete; used to support partitions, acoustical ceiling tile, etc. Also see main runner.
2. Same as ledger, 1.

A slender shoot that grows along the ground, forming roots and a new plant at its tip end.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - løber, udløber, skyder, smugler

idioms:

• do a runner    stikke af
• runner bean    [bot.] pralbønne

Nederlands (Dutch)
hardloper, smokkelaar, loper

Français (French)
n. - coureur, messager, courrier, contrebandier, (Bot) coulant, stolon, marcotte, patin, lame de patin, coulisseau, chemin (de table)

idioms:

• do a runner    déménager à la cloche de bois
• runner bean    haricot d'Espagne

Deutsch (German)
n. - Läufer, Bote, Laufbursche, Kufe, Laufschiene, Ausläufer, Kletterpflanze, Schmuggler

idioms:

• do a runner    hastig verlassen
• runner bean    Stangenbohne

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δρομέας, πατίνι (για έλκηθρο ), αγγελιαφόρος, παραβλάσταρο, στενό, μακρύ χαλί (για σκάλα), λαθρέμπορος

idioms:

• do a runner    (αργκό) το σκάω, τη σκαπουλάρω
• runner bean    αναρριχόμενη φασολιά

Italiano (Italian)
corridore, contrabbandiere

idioms:

• do a runner    andarsene in fretta
• runner bean    fagiolo rampicante

Português (Portuguese)
n. - corredor (m) (pessoa ou animal), mensageiro (m)

idioms:

• do a runner    levar uma mensagem
• runner bean    tipo de feijão que cresce para cima

Русский (Russian)
бегун, контрабандист, курьер, машина кот. хорошо ходит

idioms:

• do a runner    убежать, не заплатив
• runner bean    огненная фасоль

Español (Spanish)
n. - corredor, mensajero, contrabandista

idioms:

• do a runner    salir corriendo, darse a la fuga
• runner bean    habichuela, judía verde, ejote

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - löpare, budbärare, smugglare

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
跑步者, 逃亡者, 赛跑者, 走私者

idioms:

• runner bean    红花菜豆

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 跑步者, 逃亡者, 賽跑者, 走私者

idioms:

• runner bean    紅花菜豆

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 달리는 사람, 경주자, 순경

idioms:

• do a runner    주자로 뛰다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 走るもの, 競走者, 使い走りをする人, 注文取り, 細長いテーブル掛け, 細長いじゅうたん, 滑走部, 刃, 匍匐枝, 匍匐枝を出す植物, 走る人

idioms:

• do a runner    使い走りをする
• runner bean    ベニバナインゲン

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) العداء, الساعي, مجرى او مصب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮רץ, אצן, פס-המחליקיים, מפה, שטיח, שליח, מבריח, גבעול משתרג, שוטר, מכונאי, סוס-מירוץ, צמח מטפס מתפתל, שטיח צר וארוך, גלגל נע, טורבינה, סוג של קטניות, חבל, חבל באוניה כרוך בצדו האחד על גלגלת ובצדו השני וו‬

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