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verb
- 1. show, stage, or perform again: "she can stop the video and rerun a short sequence"
noun
- 1. an event or programme which is run again: "the World Cup rerun"
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: the act or action or an instance of rerunning : repetition. especially : a movie or television show that is rerun. Examples of rerun in a Sentence. Verb Last week's show is being rerun tomorrow night. They reran the race, but the result was the same. He reran the software on my computer. Noun She spent her vacation watching summer reruns.
RERUN definition: 1. to show a television programme, film, etc. again: 2. a programme or film that has already been…. Learn more.
A rerun or repeat is a rebroadcast of an episode of a radio or television program. The two types of reruns are those that occur during a hiatus and those that occur when a program is syndicated.
a program or movie that has already been shown before on television: This week's movies are all reruns. [ C usually singular ] UK. something that happens or is done again: The Party is demanding a rerun of the poll.
Informal. a person or thing that is merely a restatement or imitation of something familiar; rehash: The plot is just a rerun of every other spy story. rerun. verb. to broadcast or put on (a film, play, series, etc) again. to run (a race, etc) again.
1. to run or run off again. n. 2. the act of rerunning. 3. a. the showing of a motion picture or television program after its initial run or showing. b. the motion picture or television program being shown again. 4. a restatement or imitation of something familiar; rehash. [1795–1805]
If you say that something is a re-run of a particular event or experience, you mean that what happens now is very similar to what happened in the past.
rerun. Other forms: reruns; rerunning; reran. When a TV or radio station plays a show again, after its first broadcast, that's a rerun. You may have grown up watching reruns of the shows your parents loved when they were kids.
If you say that something is a re-run of a particular event or experience, you mean that what happens now is very similar to what happened in the past. They are eager to prevent a re-run of the diplomatic disaster of last year.
an event, such as a race or competition, that is held again. Officials have ordered a rerun of the last race. something that is done in the same way as something in the past. We wanted to avoid a rerun of last year's disastrous trip. See rerun in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: rerun.
