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to rerun

to rerun

1 4.2
Try to be elected to the same office again after being a candidate before
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈrʌn/
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  • The former senator decided to rerun for office in the upcoming election after a brief hiatus.

Examples

  • He announced his plans to rerun for mayor, hoping to address the issues that plagued his previous term.

  • After losing the last election, she is eager to rerun and regain her position.

  • I will rerun Benson if I have to.

    The Muppets (2011)

  • Rerun the same damn campaign, and Romney will go down just as hard.

    Blog text (14)

  • Meanwhile, he told central control to rerun his political speeches on all channels, including the shopping networks and virtual porn channels.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Or, to avoid any appearance of impropriety, perhaps Al and Betty should have to rerun the race with a fair referee.

    Academic text (2018)

  • You just say, imagine a president who did an insurrection and they were rerunning against a candidate.

Antonyms

to withdraw
103 3.7

To take back something you said before, especially in public

Surface Forms

rerun infinitive
rerunning present participle
reruns third person singular
reran past
rerun past participle

Morphology

rerun = run (semi-transparent) = re + run

The word means 'run again', but it relies on the political sense of 'run' meaning 'be a candidate'.

Etymology

Rerun joins re- 'again' with run, and because 'to run' also means 'to try to be elected', to rerun for office is to 'run again' for the same job.