Meaning of “relay” in the English Dictionary

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relayverb [ T ]

uk ​ /ˌrɪˈleɪ/ /ˈriː.leɪ/ us ​ /ˌrɪˈleɪ/ /ˈriː.leɪ/

relaynoun [ C ]

uk ​ /ˈriː.leɪ/ us ​ /ˈriː.leɪ/

relay noun [ C ] (TEAM)

› a group of people who continue an activity that others from the same team or organization have been doing previously:

Relays of workers kept the machines going through the night.
After the landslide, volunteers worked in relays to rescue people buried under the rubble.

› also relay race a running or swimming race between two or more teams in which each person in the team runs or swims part of the race

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(Definition of “relay” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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relayverb [ T ]

us ​ /riˈleɪ, ˈri·leɪ/

› to tell something you heard:

I relayed the news to the others.

(Definition of “relay” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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