Meaning & use
relay
To receive information, a signal, or a message and pass it on to someone else.
See it in a sentence
The dispatcher relayed the emergency call to the nearest available ambulance crew.
Satellites relay television signals to receivers across the entire country.
A note on using this word
As a noun, a relay is also a race in which team members take turns covering part of the total distance.
Words with a similar meaning
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A race in which team members take turns covering separate parts of the total distance.
Their school won the four-hundred-meter relay at the regional championship.
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