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Verb: rerun (reran,rerun,rerunning)  'ree,rún
  1. Broadcast again, as of a film
    "The network reran the classic series every summer";
    - rebroadcast
     
  2. Rerun a performance of a play, for example
    "The theatre decided to rerun their popular production of 'Hamlet'"
     
  3. Run again for office
    "Bush wants to rerun in 1996"
     
  4. Repeat a process or computation
    "We need to rerun those calculations"
Noun: rerun  'ree,rún
  1. A program that is broadcast again
    "she likes to watch ‘I love Lucy’ reruns"

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