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   relay

   noun

   • 1. a group of people or animals engaged in a task or activity for a period of time and then replaced by a similar group: "the wagons were pulled by relays of horses"
   • ▪ a race between teams of runners, each team member in turn covering part of the total distance: "a 550-metre relay race"
   • 2. an electrical device, typically incorporating an electromagnet, which is activated by a current or signal in one circuit to open or close another circuit.
   • 3. a device to receive, reinforce, and retransmit a radio or television signal: "TV transmitters and relay stations"
   • ▪ a signal or broadcast transmitted by a relay: "a relay of a performance live from the concert hall"

   verb

   • 1. receive and pass on (information or a message): "she intended to relay everything she had learned"
   • ▪ broadcast (something) by passing signals received from elsewhere through a transmitting station: "the speech was relayed live from the palace"

   Word Origin late Middle English (referring to the provision of fresh hounds on the track of a deer): from Old French relai (noun), relayer (verb), based on Latin laxare ‘slacken’.

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