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retry

retry

1 3.3
An attempt to do something again after you fail once
  • noun
  • /ˈriːtraɪ/
translation icon : reintento
  • It takes a good 20 minutes to get to these bosses, and on a retry, these 20 minutes are dull and lack any real challenge.

And inside systems there is all sorts of retries and timeouts and fall backs.

Examples

  • One of the best things they implemented, in my opinion, was the ability to replay missions, and rather than driving all the way back to the briefing again after you fail a mission, all you have to do is bring up your phone and click on retry.

    Blog text (8)
  • Please choose what to do: Retry, Abort, Ignore, Ignore All.

    Blog text (21)
  • Commit to faster retry rates in failing school fix efforts, one or two years, not five.

    Blog text (7)
  • After the first failure, he decided to make a retry at the exam next month.

  • The team's retry after losing the first match proved successful as they won the championship.

  • She suggested a quick retry of the experiment to see if the results would be different.

Synonyms

second chance
vsretry
223 2.3

An opportunity to try again after making a mistake

is the actual attempt to do something again rather than only an opportunity
retake
vsretry
3 4.5

A time when something is done again to fix a mistake or make it better

is an attempt to try again after failure rather than a simple repeat

Antonyms

401 3.8

Stop supporting an idea or plan

How Persistent

to pester
34 3.2
to persist
62 3.7
retry
1 3.3
approach
14 3.4

Surface Forms

retry singular
retries plural

Morphology

retry = retry (transparent) = re + try

The noun is a regular zero-derived use of the verb meaning 'an act of retrying'.

Etymology

Retry is formed from re- 'again' and try 'an attempt', so it simply means 'another try'. That's why a game or test gives you a retry after you fail.