re-lay

Or re·lay

[ree-ley]

verb (used with object)

re-laid, re-laying 

1. to lay again.

Word History and Origins

Origin of re-lay¹

First recorded in 1580–90; re- + lay ¹

Example Sentences

Biden is offering Americans and the world a vision of a prosperous, clean-energy United States where factories churn out cutting-edge batteries for export, line workers re-lay an efficient national electrical grid and crews cap abandoned oil and gas rigs and coal mines.

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“Our sellable product for the next selling season which starts in October is the one that’s been decimated. It was in the main river and we re-lay it there for early fattening. Obviously with the flow of water and the force, most of that was either washed out or lost,” Harper said.

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“Unfortunately for our team members, we had to re-lay off a fair amount of people,” said Baumann, the executive whose company owns Caesars, Bally’s and Harrah’s.

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If it’s fixing the surface we’ll re-lay it, if it’s new we build from the foundations up.

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To re-create the feeling of the landscape, Woods must re-lay the bricks of every street—hence his indignation, when reviews of his translations praise the author’s prose as if it were not his as well.

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