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Definition of Round robin
1. Noun. A tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant.
2. Noun. A letter signed by a number of people.
Definition of Round robin
1. Noun. A tournament in which every player or team competes against each of the others in turn. ¹
2. Noun. (online gaming) A method of dividing loot amongst a party of players by having the game assign in turn loot to a player or an enemy corpse to loot to a player. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Round Robin
Literary usage of Round robin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Taft Papers on League of Nations by William Howard Taft (1920)
"THE round robin » The League of Nations is an organization which cannot disclose
its advantages in the rapid manner an army or a military expedition can. ..."
2. Taft Papers on League of Nations by William Howard Taft (1920)
"THE round robin » The League of Nations is an organization which cannot disclose
its advantages in the rapid manner an army or a military expedition can. ..."
3. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century by James Anthony Froude (1888)
"head, they set their names to a round-robin, in which they bound themselves as a
... Fitzgibbon, alluding scornfully to the round-robin and anticipating the ..."
4. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville (1892)
"THE round robin. — VISITORS FROM SHOKE. AFTER the captain left, the land-breeze
died away; and, as is usual about these islands, towards noon it fell a dead ..."
5. The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt (1899)
"APPENDIX C [THE following is the report of the Associated Press correspondent of
the "round-robin" incident. It is literally true in every detail. ..."
6. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville (1847)
"The round robin. — Visitors from Shore. AFTER the captain left, the land-breeze
died away; and, as is usual about these islands, towards noon it fell ..."
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