rally

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæ.li/
• Rhymes: -æli

From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

rally (plural rallies)

1. A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause
2. (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
3. (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.
4. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)

• (increase in value): dead cat bounce

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)

1. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
2. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
   • Dryden

     The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.

   • Tillotson

     Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.

3. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
4. (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.

• (gather, unite, especially troops): muster
• (increase in value): bounce back, rebound

• (increase in value): decline

• rallying point

From French railler. See rail (“to scoff”).

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)

1. (transitive) To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
   • Addison

     Honeycomb […] raillies me upon a country life.

   • John Gay

     Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     So the athletic Magnolia instantly impounded the little lieutenant, and began to rally him, in the sort of slang she delighted in, with plenty of merriment and malice upon his tendre for Miss Chattesworth, and made the gallant young gentleman blush and occasionally smile, and bow a great deal, and take some snuff.

rally (uncountable)

1. Good-humoured raillery.

• rally in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Ryall

rally f

1. rally (motor racing event)

• rallye f

From English rally

rally m (invariable)

1. rally event involving groups of people

From English rally

rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally or rallyer, definite plural rallya or rallyene)

1. a rally (e.g. in motor sport)

• “rally” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English rally

rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally, definite plural rallya)

1. a rally (e.g. in motor sport)

• “rally” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

rally m (plural rallys)

1. Alternative spelling of rali

rally m (plural rallys)

1. rally