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.

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