# rerun
## English
### Alternative forms

* re-run

### Etymology

From re- +‎ run.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, noun) IPA: /ˈɹiːɹʌn/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (verb) IPA: /ɹiːˈɹʌn/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US, noun) IPA: /ˈɹiɹʌn/, (verb) IPA: /ɹiˈɹʌn/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌn

### Noun

rerun (plural reruns)
* An act or instance of rerunning; a repetition.
** 2017 February 27, Mure Dickie, Henry Mance, “Theresa May’s speech to head off Scottish independence poll”, in Financial Times‎:Even some strong supporters of leaving the UK worry that an early re-run would be doomed to failure.
** 2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times‎:The central concern that runs through The Technology Trap is that, unless we are very careful, our latest technological revolution may well turn out to be a tumultuous rerun of the Industrial Revolution, with dire social and political consequences.
* (US) A television program shown after its initial presentation, particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat.
    Synonym: repeat
    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.
* (publishing) Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc.
* (politics) A political candidate who holds the same political agenda or doctrine as a past or incumbent holder of a given political office.
* (computing) A second or subsequent run of a computer program.
    Each rerun of the algorithm takes several minutes.

#### Translations
### Verb

rerun (third-person singular simple present reruns, present participle rerunning, simple past reran, past participle rerun)
* (transitive) To run again; to repeat.
** 2013 July 6, N. R. Kleinfield, “The Girls Who Haven’t Come Home”, in The New York Times‎:Ms. Hill has rerun those questions in her mind. “If the girls told me they want to stay where they are, I would have to leave them,” she said.
* (transitive) To broadcast (a television program etc.) again.
    Synonym: reair
    They're still rerunning The Flintstones on this channel.
** 2008 September 8, Jon Pareles, “At the MTV Video Music Awards, a Big Draw, a Punch Line and, Now, a Winner”, in The New York Times‎:Earlier Sunday, MTV ran and reran a compilation of Ms. Spears’s previous appearances on the show, including her high-school hottie debut in 1999 and her on-the-lips kiss with Madonna in 2003, glossing over her lethargic dance number last year.
* (intransitive) To be broadcast again.
    Synonym: reair
** 2016 April 28, Caroline Framke, “Beyoncé's Lemonade is on iTunes and Amazon — but will only stream on Tidal and Pandora”, in Vox‎:Everyone is talking about Lemonade, Beyoncé's new visual album that immediately became a sensation when it debuted on HBO on Saturday night. For those who missed it (and those without a loved one's HBO Go password), Lemonade even reran just before the Game of Thrones' highly anticipated season six premiere on April 24.
* (transitive) To run (a race or other contest) again.
    rerun the election
** 2016 August 18, Jeré Longman, “U.S. Women Drop Baton, but Advance After a Second Chance”, in The New York Times‎:Thursday night, running in Lane 2 on an otherwise empty eight-lane track, at a half-empty Olympic Stadium, the United States women’s 4x100-meter relay team reran a qualifying round all by itself.
* (transitive) To run (a computer program) again.
    Restart the computer and rerun the installation.

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “rerun”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

### Anagrams

* Urner, runer