repechage

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.
2. noun The use of this form of competition.

Similar words

repercharge repecharge replay rematch runoff re-entry scratch round rerack reverse sweep

Word family

repechages