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Round robin   /raʊnd rˈɑbən/   Listen
Round robin

noun
1.
A tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant.
2.
A letter signed by a number of people.






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"Round robin" Quotes from Famous Books



... They drafted a Round Robin to the Englishman, the backslider of old days, adjuring him in the interests of the Creed to explain whether there was any connection between the embodiment of some Egyptian God or other (I have forgotten the name) and his communication. They called the kitten Ra, or Toth, or Tum, or some ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... hound. But Spooner was partly gratified, and partly incapable, and underwent a long course of questions about the Duke and the poisoning. Lady Gertrude, whose father seemed to have owned half the coverts in Ireland, had never before heard of such enormity. She suggested a round robin and would not be at all ashamed to put her own name to it. "Oh, for the matter of that," said Spooner, "Chiltern can be round enough himself without any robin." "He can't be too round," said Lady Gertrude, with ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope

... than their colonel (Quintin) thought prudent. They pressed hard to be permitted to charge the French cavalry on more than one occasion, but in vain. This so disgusted every officer in the regiment, that they eventually signed a round robin, by which they agreed never again to speak to their colonel. When the regiment returned to England, a court of inquiry was held, which resulted, through the protection of the Prince Regent, in the colonel's exoneration from all blame, ...
— Reminiscences of Captain Gronow • Rees Howell Gronow



Words linked to "Round robin" :   tourney, letter, tournament, missive



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