run-off

noun [C, usually singular] (also run-off election) POLITICS

Definition

› an extra election to decide on a winner, because the leading competitors have equal numbers of votes, or because the winner had less than half the number of votes: Colombians will vote in a run-off election to choose a new president.

(Definition of run-off noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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