repechage

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Alternative forms

• repêchage

Etymology

From French repêchage, from repêcher (“to fish out, rescue”), from re- + pêcher (“to fish”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɹɛp.ə.ʃɑːʒ/, /ɹɛpˈɪ.ʃɑːʒ/
• (US) IPA: /ˌɹɛp.əˈʃɑʒ/, /ɹəˌpɛʃˈɑʒ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

repechage (plural repechages)

1. (sports) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.

Translations

heat for competitors who have lost in a previous round

• Czech: opravná jízda (cs) f (in rowing)
• Danish: opsamlingsheat (da)
• Dutch: herkansing (nl)
• Finnish: keräilyerä (fi)
• French: repêchage (fr) m
• German: (esp. in rowing) Hoffnungslauf (de) m, (in fencing) Trostrunde (de) f
• Greek: ρεπεσάζ (el) (repesáz) n 

• Hungarian: vigaszág (hu)
• Italian: ripescaggio (it) m
• Norwegian: oppsamlingsheat (no)
• Polish: repasaż (pl) m
• Portuguese: repescagem (pt)
• Spanish: repesca (es) f