Rematch

Definitions

1. A repeated contest staged between the same opponents or teams which played a previous contest.
2. A reunion of a former couple into a new relationship.

Equivalents

Examples

“After being beaten in pool by Melanie, John asked for a rematch.”

“The general requisites for remarriage are simply an evaluation of past failures and good, sincere intentions for the rematch.”

“It was Affleck who canceled their 2003 wedding four days before the event, citing the attendant media circus, but when they canceled the rematch, a planned wedding at his Georgia estate, it was by mutual consent.”

“The au pair agencies will tell⟳ you that only about one in ten matches ends in a rematch.”

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