Usually means: Cyclic order for fairness, rotation.
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  1. round-robin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. round robin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. round robin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. round-robin, round-robin, round robin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. round robin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Round-Robin, round-robin, round robin: Wordnik
  7. round robin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. round-robin, round robin: Wiktionary
  9. round robin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. round robin: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Round robin, round-robin, round robin: Dictionary.com
  12. round robin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. round-robin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Round-robin, Round-robin (disambiguation), Round-robin (document): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. round robin: Rhymezone
  16. Round Robin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. round-robin, round robin: Free Dictionary
  18. round robin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Round Robin: The Word Detective
  20. Round-robin, round robin: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. Round robin: World Wide Words

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. round-robin: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. round-robin, round robin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. round robin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. round robin: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. round_robin: Pinochle Glossary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. round robin: Golfer's Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (round robin)

noun:  (also attributive) Senses relating to something with a round shape, or which goes around.
noun:  (originally nautical) A document (usually containing a complaint or petition) originally with the signatures arranged in a circle, and later often alphabetically, to disguise the order of signing and to indicate that the signatories are collectively responsible for it.
noun:  A letter which is reproduced and sent to several people; specifically, one containing personal news sent at a particular time of year, often Christmas; a circular letter.
noun:  A letter or piece of writing which is circulated among members of a group, to which each person makes a contribution before sending it to another person; also, a packet of letters circulated regularly in a fixed order among a group (often family members), whereby each person replaces their previous contribution with a new letter, and then sends the packet to the next recipient.
noun:  A form of trading involving a packet of items which is circulated among members of a group, whereby each person take the items they want and replaces them with items of similar value, and then sends the packet to the next recipient.
noun:  (figurative) A long, often tedious, list or piece of writing; a laundry list, a litany.
noun:  (computing) A method of making use of several similar subsystems, assigning tasks to each of them in turn (for example, sending data to a destination down several communication links in turn to achieve greater combined speed).
noun:  (gambling) A form of bet on the full set of possible combinations from a group of events, racehorses, teams, etc., such as the outcomes A and B, B and C, and A and C from a group consisting of A, B, and C.
noun:  (music) The MIDI technique of using different sampled versions of the same sound for successive notes, to avoid an unnaturally repetitive effect.
noun:  (online gaming) A method of dividing loot among a party of players by having the game assign loot, or an enemy corpse to loot, to each player in turn.
noun:  (Devon, archaic) A small pancake.
noun:  (originally US) A group activity in which the members take turns to perform an action.
noun:  (originally US, sports, often attributive) The part of a tournament in which every player or team competes against each of the others in turn.
noun:  (obsolete except historical)
noun:  (Christianity, derogatory) The consecrated host used in the Eucharist.
noun:  (clothing) A small ruff worn around the neck.
noun:  (obsolete, road transport) A rim attached to the end of an axle of a horse carriage to prevent dirt from obstructing the axle's rotation; also, a loop from which a component of a horse carriage (such as a pole or spring) is suspended.
noun:  Senses relating to people, animals, or plants.
noun:  (chiefly Caribbean, US) Any of various marine fish of the genus Decapterus often called scads which have a body with an almost round cross section, especially the round scad (Decapterus punctatus); also, any of various other fish regarded as having a somewhat round shape.
noun:  (archaic)
noun:  (Cornwall) The fishing frog or sea devil (Lophius piscatorius), a species of monkfish.
noun:  (southwest England) Any of various hedgerow plants with pink flowers, especially a red campion (Silene dioica).
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  A chiefly derogatory nickname for a man.
noun:  (Canada, US, rare) A freshwater sunfish native to eastern North America, either the pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus) or the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).

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