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• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæ.li/
• Rhymes: -æli

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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 public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.

   a campaign rally

   an election rally

2. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.

   a political rally

3. (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
4. (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.
5. (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.
   • 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[1]

     The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.

   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.

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     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.
   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 2, pages 40-41:

     Norbourne was almost thankful for any excuse that enabled him to avoid seeing Lady Marchmont. In vain he sought to rally his spirits, and to conceal his depression; but the idea of Ethel mocked his efforts to forget.

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.
   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.iii:

     But you must not rally him on the subject Sir Oliver—'tis a tender Point I assure you though He has been married only seven months.

   • 1711 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, July 31, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 132; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     Honeycomb […] rallies me after his way upon my country life.

     The spelling has been modernized.

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     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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Ryall

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rally f

1. rally (motor racing event)

• rallye f

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From English rally.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛl.li/, /relˈli/^**[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛlli, -i

rally m (invariable)

1. rally event involving groups of people

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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.

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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.

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rally m (plural s)

1. Alternative spelling of rali

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Unadapted borrowing from English rally.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrali/ [ˈra.li]

rally m (plural rallys)

1. (motor racing) rally

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “rally”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28