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rebroadcast

rebroadcast noun: retransmission; a repeated or relayed broadcast.

Noun

rebroadcast (countable and uncountable, plural rebroadcasts)

  1. Retransmission; a repeated or relayed broadcast.
    • In another demonstration against the broadcast, members of GLAAD participated in a weeklong phone-in protest to the local PBS affiliate and were told a rebroadcast of the film scheduled for March 29 had been canceled.1986 April 5, Bruce Michael Gelbert, “PBS Runs Anti-Black, Anti-Gay AIDS Show”, in Gay Community News, page 3

Verb

rebroadcast (third-person singular simple present rebroadcasts, present participle rebroadcasting, simple past and past participle rebroadcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) rebroadcasted)

  1. To broadcast again.

rebroadcast meaning in Vietnamese

rebroadcast in Vietnamese

broadcast again
phát lại

Forms of rebroadcast

Noun
pluralrebroadcasts
Verb
third-person singular presentrebroadcasts
present participlerebroadcasting
past participlerebroadcast
pastrebroadcast
past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimesrebroadcasted
past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimesrebroadcasted

Origin of rebroadcast

From re- + broadcast.

Words formed from rebroadcast

Questions about rebroadcast

What does rebroadcast mean?
Rebroadcast means retransmission; a repeated or relayed broadcast.
What is rebroadcast in Vietnamese?
Rebroadcast in Vietnamese is phát lại. See Rebroadcast meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is rebroadcast?
Rebroadcast can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of rebroadcast?
The plural of rebroadcast is rebroadcasts.

Words near rebroadcast in the dictionary

  1. rebristling
  2. rebroach
  3. rebroached
  4. rebroaches
  5. rebroaching
  6. rebroadcast
  7. rebroadcasted
  8. rebroadcaster
  9. rebroadcasters
  10. rebroadcasting
  11. rebroadcasts

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