rally
IPA: rˈæɫi
noun
- A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
- A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
- (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
- (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
- (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
- Good-humoured raillery.
verb
- (transitive) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
- (intransitive) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.
- (transitive, intransitive) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.
- (business, trading, of the market, stocks etc., intransitive) To recover strength after a decline in prices.
- (transitive) To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
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Examples of "rally" in Sentences
- The rally was dispersed by the police.
- The objective is to rally in the streets of Yerevan.
- The remainder of the rally was subsequently cancelled.
- This was the largest rally in the history of the state.
- It is the force of the rally and the alliance for democracy.
- He is the current champion of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge.
- As any aggressive investor knows, missing out on a rally is the same as losing money.
- More necessary than a rally is a counterweight to the political extremism so commonly lent a media platform.
- In other words, more necessary than a rally is a counterweight to the political extremism to which the media lends so much of a platform.
- Meanwhile, profits may be available on the long BP call options should shares in the name rally another 11.5% to surpass the effective breakeven price of $46.89 by expiration in April 2012.