rebroadcast

[ ree-brawd-kast, -kahst ]

verb (used with object),re·broad·cast or re·broad·cast·ed, re·broad·cast·ing.
  1. to broadcast again from the same station.

  2. to relay (a radio or television program, speech, etc., received from another station).

noun
  1. a program that is rebroadcast.

Origin of rebroadcast

1
First recorded in 1920–25; re- + broadcast

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How to use rebroadcast in a sentence

  • Dabney was to take a bow on the rebroadcast, too—very much the dignified and aloof scientist.

    Operation: Outer Space | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • The next day they found the relay station which rebroadcast signals from the buried aerial—or wouldn't one say, sub-terrial?

    The Cosmic Computer | Henry Beam Piper