bye
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- noun
- /baɪ/
- Jargon
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pase
- I'd bet the owner will step in if, after their bye, Sanchez stinks it up again.
- bye week
- bye in the playoffs
- first-round bye
Examples
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"Mr. Masters, you have a bye for next Monday."
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Because of the uneven number of teams, the underdog received a bye straight to the semifinals.
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The CBA requires five days off during the bye, so they are off Wednesday through Sunday.
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We overcame some things against a team that was coming off a bye and a win.
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Hopefully we will come out of the bye week playing well after making the corrections we need to make.
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Therefore, they get a bye week and will play 11-9 in the first round of the playoffs.
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Mike McCarthy refers to the bye week as a time for self-scouting.
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The Bucs head into their bye week now, and they've got a lot of things to work on.
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San Francisco could chalk this up to some bye week rust, but the problems may run deeper.
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Heco earned a first-round bye in singles play, moving on to play Rodriguez from NYIT again.
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Etymology
The word bye in sports comes from the older word by, which meant 'aside' or 'at the side'. So a player given a bye is put 'aside' from a match and moves on to the next round without playing.