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round-robin

round robin \round" rob"in\, round-robin \round"-rob"in\(round" r[o^]b"[i^]n), n.

  1. Any series or sequence of actions.

  2. A document circulated from one person to another in a group, often with comments added by each recipient.

  3. A petition or similar document, in which the signatures are arranged in circular form in order to conceal the order of signing.

  4. (Sports) A tournament in which each contestant plays against every other contestant at least once; a failure to win any contest does not result in elimination from the tournament. Contrasted with elimination tournament

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round-robin

n. (form of attributive form round robin English)

Wikipedia
Round-robin (document)

Round-robin is a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified.

Usage examples of "round-robin".

And the people sing rounds and talk in circles-and write round-robin letters with ball-point pens!