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repechage

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Editorial note

There's repechage, and there's plenty of repechage in life.

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Quick take

(sports, uncountable) The use of this form of competition.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(sports, uncountable) The use of this form of competition.

noun

(sports, countable) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for repechage.

noun

(sports, uncountable) The use of this form of competition.

noun

(sports, countable) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.

Example sentences

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There's repechage, and there's plenty of repechage in life.

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BTW, I think you have a typo: "The Germans had one their heat over GB, who had to go through the repechage".

Quote examples

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BTW, I think you have a typo: "The Germans had one their heat over GB, who had to go through the repechage".

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use repechage in a sentence?

There's repechage, and there's plenty of repechage in life.

What does repechage mean?

(sports, uncountable) The use of this form of competition.

What part of speech is repechage?

repechage is commonly used as noun.