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tiebreaking

tiebreaking adjective: serving as a tiebreaker.

Adjective

tiebreaking (not comparable)

  1. Serving as a tiebreaker
    • Jones will play MacPhee in the tiebreaking game today for fourth.2009 February 27, Brian McAndrew, “Muted Mallett rocks rivals en route to top”, in Toronto Star

Origin of tiebreaking

From tie + breaking.

Questions about tiebreaking

What does tiebreaking mean?
Tiebreaking means serving as a tiebreaker.
What part of speech is tiebreaking?
Tiebreaking is an adjective.

Words near tiebreaking in the dictionary

  1. tiebeam
  2. tiebeams
  3. tiebreak
  4. tiebreaker
  5. tiebreakers
  6. tiebreaking
  7. tiebreaks
  8. tiebroke
  9. tiebroken
  10. tieclasp
  11. tieclasps

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