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again



beginning again BEGIN
- another time: again
Sorry, can you say that again please? Let's start again.
- a second time from the beginning: (all) over again
I did it wrong so I've got to do it all over again.
- one more time: once more
Just once more, then I promise I won't ask you to do it again.
- to say or do sth again: repeat sth
Can you repeat that please? - I couldn't quite hear what you said.
- something that you do or that happens again: repetition (noun C/U)
yet another repetition of the same song There must be no repetition of last night's behaviour.
- done or happening many times: repeated (only before a noun)
a repeated knocking on the wall
- not interesting because the same thing is repeated many times: repetitive
It's quite a nice song but very repetitive.
- many times: over and over (again), again and again, repeatedly
I've said it over and over again but he never listens.
- many times (in an annoying way): always
She's always talking about her computer.
- to emphasize that sb/sth is always doing sth, you can say they never stop (doing) it
Why does that dog never stop barking?
- to cause sth that existed before to be introduced again: bring* sth back
They're bringing back all the songs from the seventies.
- to make sth popular again: revive sth; noun: revival
The nineties have seen a revival of fashions from the seventies.
- to begin again or continue after a pause or interruption: (formal) resume; noun: resumption
a resumption of fighting
Note: some verbs can express the meaning that sth is done again by adding the prefix re-
I'm going to retake my exam (= I'm going to take it again).
We haven't got as much money as we thought so we're going to have to rethink our holiday plans (= we're going to have to plan our holidays again).
It's too long - I'll rewrite it (= I'll write it again).
I'm afraid you'll have to redo this piece of work, it just isn't good enough (= you'll have to do the work again) .

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- if you have to repeat a task from the beginning, you are (informal) back to square one
Oh dear, I thought we'd finished but we seem to be back to square one.
- to do sth again from the beginning: make* a fresh start
You've made a bit of a mess of this - you'd better make a fresh start.
- a repetition of a song or piece of music at the end of a performance: encore
to give an encore She played something by Beethoven as an encore.
- something which people shout at the end of a show, when they want to hear or see an encore: encore!

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