Rebroadcasts

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To transmit a program or signal again to an audience
2. To relay a broadcasted message, often through different channels
3. Distributing previously aired content anew to reach viewers or listeners

Etymology: "Rebroadcasts" is the third-person singular form of the verb "rebroadcast," so it describes someone or something repeatedly sending out material that was already transmitted. The verb is built from "re-" meaning "again" and "broadcast," which itself began as a farming term: in the 1700s "to broadcast" meant scattering seed by hand across a field rather than in rows, and the image of spreading something widely carried over to radio in the 1920s, when "broadcast" came to mean sending signals out to an unseen audience. The "re-" prefix is the old Latin "re-," meaning "back" or "again," and it attaches freely to English verbs, so "rebroadcast" was a straightforward formation once radio transmission was common enough to need it. Its exact first recorded date is uncertain to me, but it appeared in the twentieth century alongside the growth of broadcasting.

Synonyms: retransmits, replays, reissues

Antonyms: censors, restricts