transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪpi:t ]
( repeats, repeating, repeated)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you repeat something, you say or write it again. You can say I repeat to show that you feel strongly about what you are repeating.
He repeated that he had been mis-quoted...
The Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi repeated his call for the release of hostages...
‘You fool,’ she kept repeating.
VERB : V that , V n , V with quote
2.
If you repeat something that someone else has said or written, you say or write the same thing, or tell it to another person.
She had an irritating habit of repeating everything I said to her...
I trust you not to repeat that to anyone else...
Now, brother, repeat after me, ‘All praise to Allah, Lord of All the Worlds’.
VERB : V n , V n to n , V after n with quote
3.
If you repeat yourself , you say something which you have said before, usually by mistake.
Then he started rambling and repeating himself.
VERB : V pron-refl
4.
If you repeat an action, you do it again.
The next day I repeated the procedure...
Hold this position for 30 seconds, release and repeat on the other side.
VERB : V n , V
5.
If an event or series of events repeats itself , it happens again.
The UN will have to work hard to stop history repeating itself...
VERB : V pron-refl
6.
If there is a repeat of an event, usually an undesirable event, it happens again.
There were fears that there might be a repeat of last year’s campaign of strikes.
= repetition
N-COUNT : usu sing , oft N of n
7.
If a company gets repeat business or repeat customers, people who have bought their goods or services before buy them again. ( BUSINESS )
Nearly 60% of our bookings come from repeat business and personal recommendation.
ADJ : ADJ n
8.
A repeat is a television or radio programme that has been broadcast before. ( BRIT; in AM, use re-run )
There’s nothing except sport and repeats on TV.
N-COUNT
9.
If there is a repeat performance of something, usually something undesirable, it happens again.
This year can only see a repeat performance of the decline.
= repeat
PHRASE