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Round-robin   Listen
noun
round-robin, round robin  n.  
1.
Any series or sequence of actions.
2.
A document circulated from one person to another in a group, often with comments added by each recipient.
3.
A petition or similar document, in which the signatures are arranged in circular form in order to conceal the order of signing.
4.
(Sports) A tournament in which each contestant plays against every other contestant at least once; a failure to win any contest does not result in elimination from the tournament. Contrasted with elimination tournament






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"Round-robin" Quotes from Famous Books



... party, so it had been originally planned, were to disperse on the Wednesday after Easter, but on the Tuesday various secret conferences were held, and with much formality a round-robin was signed and presented to Lady Nottingham, stating that her guests were so much pleased with their quarters that they unanimously wished to ...
— Daisy's Aunt • E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

... to me. But it was pretty dark by that time, and a good long way from the Mission. I lost myself, and thought I was never going to get here," Billy admitted. "I guess I must have wandered all round Robin Hood's Barn, when, just as I was ready to give up boat, the stars come out through a lot of clouds, and showed me the roof of the church. I steered by that, and ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... a round robin to the Englishman, the backslider of old days, adjuring him in the interests of the creed to explain whether there was any connection between the embodiment of some Egyptian god or other (I have forgotten the name) and his communication. They called the ...
— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various

... I'll try and set you right. Or if you want a dose of good strong physic, I'll mix you up something that will make you smack your lips and shout for sugar. But that other sort of thing is quite out of my way. What do you say to our all signing a round robin, and sending it into the King? for ...
— In Honour's Cause - A Tale of the Days of George the First • George Manville Fenn

... say this," said Pledge: "that I never saw three boys imitate guilt better. If they hadn't done it, I should like to ask them why they quaked in their shoes whenever they met me, and why they sent me a round robin, asking me not to tell ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed

... off another day I'm going to start a round robin, whatever that is," said Truxton. As he said it to a Dawsbergen officer who could not understand English, it is doubtful if that gentleman's polite nod of acquiescence meant unqualified approval of ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon



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