From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbyebye1 /baɪ/ ●●● S1 interjection informalGOODBYE goodbye Bye, Dave.bye for now (=used to say that you will see or speak to someone again soon)byebye2 noun [countable] DSa situation in a sports competition in which a player or a team does not have an opponent to play against and continues to the next part of the competition
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bye• Banbridge, Dungannon, Bangor and North have byes to the second round.• But the finger stayed down and, to add insult, Sri Lanka's batsmen trotted a cheeky leg bye.• They had talked about enjoying the bye week.• Since the advent of the bye week in 1990, the Rams are 3-5 the week afterward.• Maybe it was the bye week hex.• The Raiders actually have had two weeks to prepare for Denver, with both teams coming off their bye week.bye-bye- /baɪ/ prefix another spelling of by-Origin bye1 (1700-1800) goodbye bye2 (1800-1900) by 