rerun

Plural: reruns

Noun

• a program that is broadcast again
  • "she likes to watch `I love Lucy' reruns"
• An act or instance of rerunning; a repetition.
• A television program shown after its initial presentation, particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat.
• Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc.
• A political candidate who holds the same political agenda or doctrine as a past or incumbent holder of a given political office.
• A second or subsequent run of a computer program.

Verb

Verb Forms: reran, rerunning, reruns

• To present a repetition of a recorded performance.
• broadcast again, as of a film
• rerun a performance of a play, for example
• run again for office
  • "Bush wants to rerun in 1996"
• cause to perform again
  • "We have to rerun the subjects--they misunderstood the instructions"
• To run again; to repeat.
• To broadcast (a television program etc.) again.
• To be broadcast again.
• To run (a race or other contest) again.
• To run (a computer program) again.

Examples

• Each rerun of the algorithm takes several minutes.
• I'm not a fan of the new Simpsons episodes, but the old reruns have me in stitches, although I've seen them countless times.
• rerun the election
• Restart the computer and rerun the installation.
• Sometimes, a classic Words With Friends match feels like a rerun of a familiar strategy.
• They're still rerunning The Flintstones on this channel.

Synonyms

rebroadcast, reair, repeat

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