round robin

1. 1.

   a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant

   Broadertournament
2. 2.

   a letter signed by a number of people

   Broaderletter

Questions about round robin

What does round robin mean?

round robin means "a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is round robin a common word?

round robin 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.