play back

1. 1.

   reproduce (a recording) on a recorder

   “The lawyers played back the conversation to show that their client was innocent”

   Synonymsreplay

   Broaderreproduce

Questions about play back

What does play back mean?

play back means "reproduce (a recording) on a recorder".

What is another word for play back?

Close synonyms include replay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is play back a common word?

play back is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.