How to pronounce“bye”in English
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Definitions of “bye”
The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
“Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.”
An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
Out of the way; remote.
“At length having gained a very bye Alley, where he thought he might enter into a Conference unnoticed by any who knew him.”
Secondary; supplementary.
“But the two labourers of whom I am speaking had their allowances, lived on their fixed wages with the profits of their bye labour, one being pig-killer to the village, and, therefore, always busy from Michaelmas to Lady-day, at a shilling a pig, and the offal, on which his family subsisted, wit h the produce of their small curtilage, for half the year.”