repetitionnoun
uk/ˌrep.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/us/ˌrep.əˈtɪʃ.ən/C2 [ U ] the act of doing or saying something again:
His books are full of repetition.
[ C ] something that happens in the same way as something that happened before:
We want to prevent a repetition of last summer's fires, which destroyed more than 500,000 acres of land.
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- We hope to avoid a repetition of last year's fiasco.
- We don't want a repetition of yesterday's scenes.
- The job involved the endless repetition of two or three simple tasks.
- Try to avoid unnecessary repetition when stating your points.
- His speeches show a marked preference for repetition, that tedious rhetorical device.
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Repeating an action
- bring
- bring sth back
- circle
- come/go/turn full circle idiom
- comeback
- do sth over
- eye
- iterative
- keep on doing sth
- keep your eye in idiom
- performance
- practice
- repeat
- revert to sth
- revisit
- there you go again idiom
- warm
- warm sth over
- warmed-over
- wave
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