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Noun: rerun  'ree,rún
  1. A program that is broadcast again
    "she likes to watch 'I love Lucy' reruns"
Verb: rerun (reran,rerun,rerunning)  'ree,rún
  1. (broadcast medium) broadcast again, as of a film
    - rebroadcast
     
  2. Rerun a performance of a play, for example
     
  3. Run again for office
    "Bush wants to rerun in 1996"
     
  4. Cause to perform again
    "We have to rerun the subjects--they misunderstood the instructions"

Derived forms: reran, rerun, rerunning, reruns

Type of: air, beam, broadcast, campaign, mount, program [N. Amer], programme [Brit, Cdn], put on, run, send, transmit

Encyclopedia: Rerun