rematch

Definition

A repeated contest staged between the same opponents or teams which played a previous contest.

Etymology

From re- + match.

Example Sentences

• "After being beaten in pool by Melanie, John asked for a rematch."
• "The general requisites for remarriage are simply an evaluation of past failures and good, sincere intentions for the rematch."
• "It was Affleck who canceled their 2003 wedding four days before the event, citing the attendant media circus, but when they canceled the rematch, a planned wedding at his Georgia estate, it was by mutual consent."