retransmission

noun

re·​trans·​mis·​sion (ˌ)rē-tran(t)s-ˈmi-shən 

-tranz-

plural retransmissions

: an act, process, or instance of retransmitting something

data retransmission

satellite retransmissions of broadcast signals

TCP/IP retransmission

Examples of retransmission in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The retransmission fees to Louisville area broadcast stations are based on more than 100,000 subscribers and the lawsuit estimates that Spectrum would have to pay around $334 million annually in retransmission fees based on the $28 charge to customers. —Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 June 2025

Even if Fox was willing to license a feed of Fox without Fox News, or Paramount was willing to license CBS without Nickelodeon or MTV, the current value of retransmission fees for those broadcast networks continues to rise. —Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025

All the remaining stuff, like breaking and reassembling messages, detecting errors, and retransmission, would stay in TCP. —ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2025

And automatic error correction or retransmission schemes may completely hide the interference from the user. —Mark A. McHenry, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2015

Word History

First Known Use

1788, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for retransmission

• abolition
• acquisition
• admonition
• ammunition
• apparition
• apposition
• coalition
• competition
• composition
• definition
• deglutition
• demolition