re-run

verb (used with object)

to run again.

noun

the act of rerunning.

a showing of a motion picture or television program after its initial run, usually some months or years later.

the motion picture or television program being shown again.

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.

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Origin:
1795–1805; re- + run

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rerun

—vb , -runs, -running, -ran
1.	to broadcast or put on (a film, play, series, etc) again
2.	to run (a race, etc) again

—n
3.	a film, play, series, etc, that is broadcast or put on again; repeat
4.	a race that is run again
5.	computing the repeat of a part of a computer program

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rerun

1804, in ref. to races, from re- "back, again" + run (q.v.). The noun, in ref. to filmed television, is recorded from 1934.

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